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Peter C Olsen (pcolsen@super.org) wrote:

: 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
  	Almost cosmic.  I came to this group to get help with DEMACS.  I tried running it this morning and it write-protected my hard drive.  I didn't even
know that was possible.  Anyway if anybody has any encouraging words.  I 
installed it per instructions with the modifications to the _emacs file and 
the *SET* terms in the autoexec file and included it in the *PATH*.  At first
all it returned was *use demacs [program[options]]* which to me says that
it should load and start with the *scratch* buffer.  I tried other ANCII
files and it said it didn't recognize the file type.  In a final attempt to
stop the pain I shoot myself in the foot and ran it giving the demacs. file
in the bin subdirectory as an argument.  It claimed to have loaded it and that
was the last I saw of my hard drive for the rest of the day.  Any sugestions
other than looking for a job in a field where I'm not as apt to do as much 
damage.  If it matters I am running it on a stacked disk.
	By the way I've also tried Fremacs which seems better behaved but is
missing so much of the power of emacs that it's hardly worth it.  I may just 
go back to Bingo-Ed but I dislike switching editors between machines.

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Paul Schwartz       pschwrtz@lynx.cs.washington.edu