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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: MicroEMACS and GNU (was standout bugs)
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Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 11:21:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 24 11:21:52 1987
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>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.