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eneafsey@lucpul.it.luc.edu (E. J. Neafsey) said:

> One other thing: any solutions to demacs's problems with file locking
> when you SET TZ=CST-9???

I recently (3 months ago) was given a laptop PC at work, in the hope that
I'd do some work for free at home in the evenings.  For the next 3 months,
I struggled with MSDOS and Demacs, encountering the kinds of problems that
have been mentioned here, (file locking, Japanese times, occasional
freezes, no shell mode, etc, etc).

I eventually found the perfect solution to all these problems - I got
myself a copy of Linux, a free UN*X implementation for PCs.  Now I have GNU
Emacs 18.59, GCC, lex, yacc, and everything else I could ever wish for
(almost).  Emacs even appears to run faster under Linux than Demacs ever
did under MSDOS!

The point I'm trying to make is that if all you want to do is use the PC to
edit files while away from your UN*X workstation, then it may be better to
abandon MSDOS altogether and get Linux.  It worked for me.

Possible drawbacks with Linux:

      o It requires at least a 386 to run.

      o It gobbles around 50Mb of disk space if you want to install a
        complete system (X11, TeX, gcc, Emacs, etc).

See the FAQs in comp.os.linux for further details.  I recommend getting the
Soft Landing System (SLS) package, since that gives you almost all of the GNU
stuff in a ready-to-run form.

I hope this is useful to somebody.  I just wish I'd discovered Linux 3
months ago...

Chris.
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