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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
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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
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