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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.

;   Peter

I've been using DEMACS for close to a year now, and have had none of
the difficulties you describe.  My only problem was that I use 4DOS
instead of COMMAND.COM and DEMACS doesn't seem to handle it very well.
When I put "set COMSPEC=c:\dos\command.com" in the .bat file, that
problem was solved.  Believe me, if it had ever hung up more than once
or twice or even once done anything to my hard disk, I would have
dropped it immediately, but I don't ever recall it doing anything like
that.  I hope you get the problem solved.  Good Luck.


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