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In article <BOB.91Feb13093533@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>In article <7064@pizza.cam.nist.gov> straw@cam.nist.gov (Mike Strawbridge) writes:
>   Does emacs run on a Cray YMP under UNICOS? 
>
>I prefer to run Emacs on my workstation and use ange-ftp to edit files
>on the remote machine. Other than a slight delay when opening a stale
>FTP connection, I can hardly tell the files aren't local.  Then I
>interact with the remote machine's shell (or EXEC or DCL or whatever)
>in a nearby terminal window.  This relieves the large machine of the
>network character interrupt load of interacting with me while I'm
>editing, relieves the network of my tiny-packet traffic, and gives me
>better responsiveness in my editing functions.  I have access to all
>my expected Emacs functions (e.g.  crypt.el and hexl-mode.el), even if
>they haven't been installed on the remote machine yet.  I can work on
>any machine with an FTP server, no matter its operating system and no
>matter whether it supports Emacs.
>
>The only functions lacking are things like (compile) and (gdb).

- I would highly recommend this package to everyone. We have emacs on
our cray ,but I always edit from emacs on my workstation. The
difference in response is really noticable. I even use this method
when working on other local workstations. That way I don't have to
worry about keeping my .emacs updated on all the different filesystems
that I work on. It would be really nice if I could set up an
emacsclient on the remote machine to access emacs running on my
machine. Has anyone attempted this? Guess I'll have to look at the 
code. 

BWT, where does emacs look at the /var file system in it's startup? We
have a subdirectory of /var remotely mounted and it hangs emacs if
this filesystem is down.

- Booker C. Bense

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