GNU EMACS on Microport?

[James Van Artsdalen]

IN article <1081 at sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, ken at sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Ken) wrote:
> I'm running a Zenith Z-386 and am considering purchasing Microport
> unix for it.  One of the many reasons why I want to do this is so I
> may run GNU EMACS 18.51 on my machine.

You'll need a 386 to run GNU emacs, but I'm sure Xenix-386 runs it too.  You
may need more memory: As I type this in using 18.51 under uPort/386, it's
using 650K of RAM.  You need 6.5meg of disk space to run, and maybe 10meg more
to compile & install.

> But, I haven't seen any
> discussions here on getting it to run under Microport.

Probably because it just installs without hassle.   :-)

> Has anyone
> tried this?  Was it merely a matter of recompiling?

One program in etc/ generated a compiler-internal error, but it was obvious
and easy to fix.  Obviously didn't use the optimizer, but it runs pretty
quick.  I did use the keyboard ioctl() to remap the keyboard at the driver
level so that the backspace key would generate DEL and the keypad wouldn't
generate ESC [, and a few other useful things.

OSU has all the current GNU stuff on-line for anonymous downloads at 1200bps &
2400bps.  I can make it available for Trailblazer downloads if anyone wants
to save some $$$.  The compressed sources are just over 4meg.
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