Does DEMACS work reliably for anyone?

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From: Peter C Olsen
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 17:39

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Does DEMACS work --- reliably?  I would appreciate email from anyone
who has experience, either way. I have been trying to use DEMACS, but
I have been unable to get it to work reliably.  It seems to be very
sensitive to other software, either refusing to run or running
"poorly" --- e.g. ignoring characters or doubling them.  Then, when it
appears to be running well, it often hangs at odd times, losing my
recent work.  Emacs is my favorite editor (by far) in the unix
environment, and I had hoped to use it extensively in DOS, but, so
far, I am still relying on BRIEF simply because I can't depend on
DEMACS.

Peter


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Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.editors,gnu.emacs.help
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!super!pcolsen
From: pcolsen@super.org (Peter C Olsen)
Subject: Does DEMACS work reliably for anyone?
Message-ID: <1992Dec20.173946.20445@super.org>
Followup-To: comp.emacs
Summary: Demacs fails frequently.  Can this be fixed?
Keywords: demacs, brief, unix, msdos, editors
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Organization: Supercomputing Research Center
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 17:39:46 GMT
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