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Re: Emacs under MS-Windows (was: MicroEMACS under GUI - what&where?)

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From: Peter Haller
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 22:44
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In a previous article, weisman@osf.org (Dave Weisman) says:

>
>Mirco writes:
>
>	Now I heard of other versions of MicroEMACS for
>	window-orientated enviroments (MS Windows, XWindows, ...). Up to
>	now I haven't discovered yet which versions do exist or where to
>	get them. 
>
>I've been a very, very happy demacs user for some time now.  Some
>of my current work is under MS-Windows and unfortunately demacs
>doesn't work in that model.  It's not just that demacs isn't
>written as a typical Windows program, but it also doesn't run
>under a Windows/DOS session.  (The specific problem is that a
>Windows/DOS session supports DPMI, but demacs/go32 likes VCPI.)
>
>Has anyone researched what's necessary to either port GO32 to
>DPMI, or, take a deep breath, do a real emacs port to Windows?
>

Emacs has been ported to Windows. It is a very good port also. It
is available on simtel20 , cica, and Compuserve. MEWIN.ZIP is the
file. (It is also available for Windows NT!)

PCH
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From: aa596@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Haller)
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Subject: Re: Emacs under MS-Windows (was: MicroEMACS under GUI - what&where?)
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