Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!teddy!jpn From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: MicroEMACS and GNU (was standout bugs) Message-ID: <4216@teddy.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 11:21:52 EDT Article-I.D.: teddy.4216 Posted: Fri Jul 24 11:21:52 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 14:17:09 EDT References: <384@rebel.UUCP> <3574@oberon.USC.EDU> <838@rebel.UUCP> Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) Distribution: world Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 22 Keywords: MicroEMACS standout >In article <3574@oberon.USC.EDU> blarson@castor.usc.edu (Bob Larson) writes: >>Are you unaware of MicroGnuEmacs (mg)? >> In article <838@rebel.UUCP> george@rebel.UUCP (George M. Sipe) writes: >I am aware of it. ... However, when it became necessary for me to >use PCs (of the IBM variety) I was surprised to learn that it did not >support them. I have written a MSDOS version of "mg" for MSC4.0 (mg 1a, the mod.sources version). It uses the bios rather than direct hardware writes (for portability). I implemented all the features that made sense and that were reasonable to implement using bios functions (including ALT key (as META) support, Timeout prompts, function keys, etc). I have sent mail to the mg maintainers, but have not recieved any response as yet. I suppose that either my mail or theirs got eaten. I needed five lines of assembly language to bypass a flaw in the MSC library. My next version of mg will use TurboC, where such hacks are not necessary.