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From: pink@fsz.bme.hu (Szabolcs Szigeti (PinkPanther))
Subject: Re: Where can I get NetBSD ports of emacs,tcsh?
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Organization: Department of Process Control, Technical University of Budapest, HUNGARY
References: <1993Sep9.024434.28050@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 09:09:34 GMT
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In article 28050@en.ecn.purdue.edu, colakovi@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Nick R Colakovic) writes:
>I have just recently completed installing NetBSD on my machine.  I would
>like to install some of my favorite UNIX tools on the machine.  I am
>wondering if their is any ftp site that has pre-compiled ports of tcsh
>and emacs?
>	I have compiled tcsh under NetBSD, but the resulting program seems
>to interupt just about any forground task (vi,more, etc) when I type.  I
>remember reading somewhere that 386BSD had an obsolete BSD TTY library
>that made term. I/O fun.  I am relatively sure this is the problem because
>processes I invoke under tcsh are suspended when I type anything.  Does any
>at least know what defines or config include I need to get tcsh working
>correctly?
>
>
I suppose you are talking about NetBSD-0.9.
I have compiled tcsh (6.04 if i remember right) using its config file for
BSD4.4. It works for me allright.

Emacs sucks more, because ( of the changes in a.out i think ) it cannot dump
itself. Tinker with unexec.c! I have succeeded to make it produce xemacs with
at least a valid exec header, but it doesen't work. I didn't have time to study 
the new a.out format, maybe someone! Isn't it possible to have emacs not to dump
itself, but to compile the lisp files every time? (slow like hell.)
BTW i mean emacs 18.58, i don't have spare MB's for later monsters. :-( .

	Regards, Szabolcs
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