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From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: Where can I get NetBSD ports of emacs,tcsh?
References: <1993Sep9.024434.28050@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <CDAC3y.LF1@sztaki.hu>
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In article <CDAC3y.LF1@sztaki.hu> pink@fsz.bme.hu writes:
>Emacs sucks more, because ( of the changes in a.out i think ) it cannot dump
>itself. Tinker with unexec.c!

No, put this in the m-* file:

#define A_TEXT_OFFSET(HDR) sizeof (HDR)

-- Richard
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