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- From: pschwrtz@lynx.cs.washington.edu (Paul Schwartz)
- Subject: Re: Does DEMACS work reliably for anyone?
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 10:02:16 GMT
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- Peter C Olsen (pcolsen@super.org) wrote:
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- : Does DEMACS work --- reliably? I would appreciate email from anyone
- : who has experience, either way. I have been trying to use DEMACS, but
- : I have been unable to get it to work reliably. It seems to be very
- : sensitive to other software, either refusing to run or running
- : "poorly" --- e.g. ignoring characters or doubling them. Then, when it
- : appears to be running well, it often hangs at odd times, losing my
- : recent work. Emacs is my favorite editor (by far) in the unix
- : environment, and I had hoped to use it extensively in DOS, but, so
- : far, I am still relying on BRIEF simply because I can't depend on
- : DEMACS.
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- : Peter
- Almost cosmic. I came to this group to get help with DEMACS. I tried running it this morning and it write-protected my hard drive. I didn't even
- know that was possible. Anyway if anybody has any encouraging words. I
- installed it per instructions with the modifications to the _emacs file and
- the *SET* terms in the autoexec file and included it in the *PATH*. At first
- all it returned was *use demacs [program[options]]* which to me says that
- it should load and start with the *scratch* buffer. I tried other ANCII
- files and it said it didn't recognize the file type. In a final attempt to
- stop the pain I shoot myself in the foot and ran it giving the demacs. file
- in the bin subdirectory as an argument. It claimed to have loaded it and that
- was the last I saw of my hard drive for the rest of the day. Any sugestions
- other than looking for a job in a field where I'm not as apt to do as much
- damage. If it matters I am running it on a stacked disk.
- By the way I've also tried Fremacs which seems better behaved but is
- missing so much of the power of emacs that it's hardly worth it. I may just
- go back to Bingo-Ed but I dislike switching editors between machines.
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- Paul Schwartz pschwrtz@lynx.cs.washington.edu
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