Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 16:36:43 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Is RHIDE a good environment to use?
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On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Thomas Demmer wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > So what's your problem to download the Emacs sources and build it on the
> > Unix box?  It is usually quite easy.
>
> Because they have diskquotas

He didn't say that the disk space is the problem.

> emacs wants to have files under /usr/local, where most users don't have 
> write access for obvoius reasons.

This is easily changed using the --prefix argument to ./configure 
script.  I have built Emacs this way on machines where sysadmins didn't 
want to install it in a public directory.