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From: mono@moon.ie (Michio Ono)
Subject: Re: help for emacs-386bsd
Message-ID: <1993Dec2.175559.17699@moon.ie>
Organization: MO's Own Network
References: <CH0zF4.43q@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <RONNIE.93Nov30204635@lager.cisco.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 17:55:59 GMT
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In <RONNIE.93Nov30204635@lager.cisco.com> ronnie@lager.cisco.com (Ronnie B. Kon) writes:

>In article <CH0zF4.43q@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> snei@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (sou-huei nei) writes:
>>   I am going to install emacs (version: 18.59)  on my BSD unix, could anyone
>>   tell me how to find  installation script file  ?
>>   Thanks in advance !                    

>I think you need version 19.  Version 18 doesn't support '386 chips
>without major hacking.  (At least this was my conclusion when I put
>emacs on my 386 Unix box 4 months ago.

>				Ronnie

Well, I got emacs-18.59 compiled on my 386BSD + patchkit 0.2.1 machine without
any hasstle..  I've forgotten the detail but there were files for 386BSD system
which names were s-386bsd.h and m-intel386.h.  I think I set these in config.h
file and everything went honky-dory.
-- 
Michio Ono