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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!cronkite.cisco.com!cronkite.cisco.com!ronnie From: ronnie@lager.cisco.com (Ronnie B. Kon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: help for emacs-386bsd Date: 08 Dec 1993 01:07:59 GMT Organization: cisco Systems Lines: 24 Message-ID: <RONNIE.93Dec7170759@lager.cisco.com> References: <CH0zF4.43q@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <RONNIE.93Nov30204635@lager.cisco.com> <BLYMN.93Dec7162947@mallee.awadi.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lager.cisco.com In-reply-to: blymn@mallee.awadi.com.au's message of 07 Dec 1993 22:29:45 GMT In article <BLYMN.93Dec7162947@mallee.awadi.com.au> blymn@mallee.awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes: > 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. I guess "too much hacking" is a relative measure. Version 19 was plug and play. This was better, from my POV. Ronnie -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ronnie B. Kon | "You couldn't deny that, even if you used both hands" ronnie@cisco.com | (415) 688-4592 | -- The Red Queen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------