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From: Eric Goodheart
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:54

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In response to a previous posting, I can safely say that
demacs does work.  Occasionally it hangs when one returns
from a dos shell (when it cannot find command.com).  Despite
all the fixes that have been posted and which I have applied,
I haven't found any way around that appart from returning
immediately to dos and doing something like listing the
contents of a directory and then returning to demacs...  This
kind of a problem I can live with for now.

As I have indicated in other postings, some of the lisp files
preloaded in demacs have bugs which can be fixed by loading clean
lisp files.

There is no question that demacs is not yet as reliable as other
versions of emacs.  But within its unreliablity it is powerful 
enough and predictable enough to be quite a useful tool, its
shortcomings notwithstanding.  If anybody knows about something
better or more versatile, I would be glad to hear it.

Eric Goodheart

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From: goodhear@husc8.harvard.edu (Eric Goodheart)
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Subject: Demacs
Keywords: Reliability
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