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- From: trsnyder@mcs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Macs for UNIX lovers
- Message-ID: <TRSNYDER.92Dec29133109@vf0031.mcs.drexel.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 18:31:09 GMT
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- In article <C012B0.602@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu> ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (bryan d oakley) writes:
-
- As I have said in other postings (whether you've seen them or not),
- I am a new mac owner. My roots are in UNIX, mostly of the
- workstation variety (with a smattering of VMS and (argh!) Data
- General AOS/VS -- though, why should you care?). Anyway, I want my
- mac to have some of the 'luxurys' I've grown used to. For example,
- I want an emacs clone (microemacs?), I would love to gateway email
- to the net (uucp/uupc?),
-
- There is a uEmacs out there.... Really, though, I would suggest
- getting a real word processor, and using a program like BBedit for
- small things, since it's smarter about dealing with Mac files than any
- version of emacs for the Macintosh I've seen.
-
- There is a version of UUPC out for the Mac, and a couple of programs that can
- read the mail files... Fernmail and I believe Eudora will read the mail.
-
- get news (of course!) play my favorite games (moria, hack, various
-
- The only UUCP news handler I know of is uAccess, from ICE Engineering
- (info@ice.com), although there are a number of NNTP client programs...
-
- Games probably could be ported without too much problem if you have a decent
- compiler (and isn't porting half the fun? :-)... People probably have already
- ported them; you might want to look around various game directories...
-
- startrek incarnations, etc.) connect to my sun (X, ppp/slip, etc.)
- and so on and so forth.
-
- MacX is a commericial X server from Apple. MacPPP is available for ftp from
- merit.edu, and there are a couple of Mac SLIPs which I believe are listed in
- the comp.sys.mac.comm FAQ. You will need a copy of MacTCP for either, the
- availability of which is prompting some controversy right now. :-)
-
-
- Most of the PD/SW software I mentioned is available from most Mac ftp sites,
- including sumex-aim.stanford.edu or mac.archive.umich.edu.
-
- Bob
-