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From: blymn@mallee.awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: help for emacs-386bsd
Date: 07 Dec 1993 22:29:45 GMT
Organization: AWA Defence Industries
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Message-ID: <BLYMN.93Dec7162947@mallee.awadi.com.au>
References: <CH0zF4.43q@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <RONNIE.93Nov30204635@lager.cisco.com>
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In-reply-to: ronnie@lager.cisco.com's message of 01 Dec 1993 04:46:35 GMT

>>>>> On 01 Dec 1993 04:46:35 GMT, ronnie@lager.cisco.com (Ronnie B. Kon) said:
Ronnie> NNTP-Posting-Host: lager.cisco.com

Ronnie> 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 !                    

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

Nonsense!  I have compiled emacs-18 on both 386BSD and Interactive
3.2.2.  In both cases emacs compiled without too much hacking.  Though
I must admit emacs 19 is much nicer if you have X.

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Brett Lymn