Why emacs is so big?

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From: Kent Tong
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 00:00

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Does anyone know why Emacs is so big? The pre-compiled installation
requires about 15Mb disk space. Is there a real minimum set of files
that are really necessary to run Emacs to edit normal ASCII text 
files, C, C++ and Java files? How big is it?


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Kent Tong
Freeman Installer ==> http://www.netnet.net/users/freeman/

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