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- From: rick@mel1.geg.mot.com (Rick Rankin)
- Subject: Re: Does DEMACS work reliably for anyone?
- Organization: Motorola, inc. - Scottsdale, AZ
- Date: 29 Dec 92 16:43:13 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: pcolsen@super.org's message of Sun, 20 Dec 1992 17:39:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.173946.20445@super.org> pcolsen@super.org (Peter C Olsen) writes:
-
- ; 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.
-
- ; Peter
-
- I've been using DEMACS for close to a year now, and have had none of
- the difficulties you describe. My only problem was that I use 4DOS
- instead of COMMAND.COM and DEMACS doesn't seem to handle it very well.
- When I put "set COMSPEC=c:\dos\command.com" in the .bat file, that
- problem was solved. Believe me, if it had ever hung up more than once
- or twice or even once done anything to my hard disk, I would have
- dropped it immediately, but I don't ever recall it doing anything like
- that. I hope you get the problem solved. Good Luck.
-
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