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Re: microemacs v30 on the ST

#772
From: Robert Hamilton
Date: Mon, 19 May 1986 12:11
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In article <3790@utah-cs.UUCP> sandra@utah-cs.UUCP writes:
>Has anybody succeeded in getting the MicroEmacs V30 (posted to mod.sources
>last month) to run on an Atari ST?  I get warning messages like "pointer 
>subtraction yields a long result" while compiling display.c, and then the
>linker dies with a seek error while trying to load display.o.  This is
>with the developer's kit C compiler and using the .bat files supplied
>with the microemacs sources.  I see some comments in the code at the
>relevant places in display.c referring to "Alcyon C hack", but I'm not
>enough of a C wizard to figure out exactly what's wrong or how to fix it.
>(Pointer arithmetic?  Blecchhh!)  Can anyone enlighten me?
>
>-Sandra Loosemore
>(utah-cs!sandra, loosemore@utah-20, decwrl!esunix!loosemor)


I ported u-emacs V30 to the ST using the Lattice compiler with little trouble.
I also included "shell escapes" (you can run make etc. from emacs) and 
a couple of nice things like "cd" and "pwd"
If anybody wants it I could post it out (uuencoded?)
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From: rh@cs.paisley.ac.uk (Robert Hamilton)
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Subject: Re: microemacs v30 on the ST
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Date: Mon, 19-May-86 08:11:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 19 08:11:46 1986
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Keywords: how do you get it to compile?