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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!olymp!sfb256!volker From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) Subject: Re: emacs for bsd386?? Message-ID: <1992Sep28.015043.4890@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> Sender: usenet@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany References: <197594INNd5o@corax.udac.uu.se> <1992Sep17.233311.26321@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> <veit.716830243@du9ds3> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 01:50:43 GMT Lines: 30 In article <veit.716830243@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de writes: >In <1992Sep17.233311.26321@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) writes: >>In article <bcrawfor.716490140@sol.UVic.CA>, bcrawfor@sol.UVic.CA (Bryan Crawford) writes: >>> an anuyone point me in the right direction for acquiring >>> emacs (preferably GNU) which has been ported to BSD386. > >>I'm surprised that nobody mentions the fact that a ready-to-run emacs binary >>came with the etc.01 distribution. That saved me since I never got around >>to learning the key sequences of That Other editor. >You seem to have a different "etc01" than the rest of the world. From the >cpio directory listing the only thing that has "emacs" in its path is >the emacs.el mode for perl-4.019. Another check for finding the numerous >".el" and ".elc" files only find few additional ones in perl and cvs >directories. Where did you get your "etc.01"? Seems that someone has >mixed together "official" and "unofficial" stuff. No such addition has >been posted to c.u.b yet. Sorry. You're right. I got the emacs binary off some ftp server (forget which one) but it didn't come from the etc distribution. The port was done by Shannon Appel (appel@erzo.Berkeley.EDU) and works just fine. I'm very glad to have it. -- Volker -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bitnet: UNM409@DBNRHRZ1 Volker A. Brandt UUCP: ...!unido!DBNRHRZ1.bitnet!unm409 Angewandte Mathematik Internet: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de (Bonn, Germany)