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In article <1992Dec20.173946.20445@super.org> pcolsen@super.org (Peter C Olsen) writes:
>
>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.

I haven't seen any problems where characters are ignored or doubled, but
I have had a lot of problems where DEMACS hangs, presumably because its
32-bit DOS extender is incompatible with other ones, like the one provided
with Turbo C++ V3.0.  I've also had problems with Tiara's 10-Net networking
software, because their software messes up the console driver so that opening
the console in raw mode doesn't work.  It causes control-S to be interpreted
as a pause key - most inconvenient for searching and saving.  I have found
it to be mostly usable, but sometimes it seems to require rebooting whenever
switching from specific applications back to editing.
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