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In <9301071325.ZM2245@boggs> dbl@visual.COM (David B. Lewis) writes:

>I've been looking at the EMU terminal emulator package on export. It's labeled
>"alpha release" and is dated 10/91. 

>I've been unable to contact the folks at emu@pcsbst.pcs.com.  Does anybody know 
>the status of this project?

That's weird. I've received a couple of letters to the mailing list 
during the last months. Are sure your mailsystem is set up properly?
If I read visual.com's MX record right, you want to be contacted
through relay[12].uu.net. If your outgoing mail takes the same
route, there should be no problem to get mail through to us.

Anyways, here's the status of emu.

	- It started out as a PCS project in '90 with Jordan
	  Hubbard, Tom Bagli and me working on it.

	- The project later was canceled and we were allowed
	  to give it out for free. We continued work in our
	  own time.

	- We put it on the R5 contrib tape but didn't have
	  support for very many machines ready that's why
	  we called it alpha.

	- Tom and Jordan left PCS last year but Jordan and
	  I are still working on emu although neither of
	  us can spend much time on it since we are highly
	  occupied by our normal work.

	- I want to get out a new release since summer last
	  year that mainly has support for more OS-dependant
	  pty implementations but haven't managed to do it
	  yet for lack of time and Jordan's hope to get the
	  SUN pty stuff to work properly under all circumstances.

As is, it works quite fine for SYSV or POSIX systems, I'm using 
emu every day as my default terminal emulator. With it's built
in "lean and mean" emu emulation it's even smaller than the
old xterm and I like the blinking text and cursor (ok, enough
advertising ;-)

So if anybody is REALLY interested in the new stuff and is willing
to spend some time with the code as is (we especially could need
help on the pty side for SUNs, since Jordan is quite frustrated
already and starts to doubt his programming skills ;-), I could
send out the code by mail. I don't want to put it on export,
however, until I've got it cleaned up better.

Michael

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