Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/12/18/03:22:44
From: Jochen DOT Roger DOT Hayek AT ACM DOT org (Jochen `Roger' Hayek)
In article elf AT netcom DOT com (Marc Singer) writes:
>Does OEmacs run with Windows? Is it a port of Emacs, or is it
>someone's Own Emacs?
There are several versions of oemacs.
It's a port of GNU Emacs 19.19. Very full-featured, except that like
all DOS Emaxen it cannot do asynchronous processes.
BTW the name comes from dOs - and the `DŽ from Dos was already used
by demacs.
Oh, I thought the 'D' from 'Darryl' didn't work 'cause of DEmacs, so
he used the 'O' from 'Okahata'.
None of them is running within original MS-Windows.
But at least one of them runs with desqview/x - a commercial x-server,
that in turn runs within MS-Windows.
Bzzt. MS-Windows runs within DESQview/X. Windowze is far too
impolite to allow another operating system to operate within it.
However, this is no longer very useful, as most useful Windowze
programs that do *not* require enhanced mode have decent X Windows
substitutes, and stuff like Mathematica that *do* require enhanced
mode won't run within DESQview/X, which only permits Windows real and
standard modes.
There are two versions that run within DESQview/X. The vanilla
DOS + DJGPP + hacked GO32 v1.10 works fine. I used to use that. Then
I switched to Linux. There is also an X Windows version which is
specific to the DJGPP + DV/X environment that gives colorization and
frames and menuing and X Windows selections and all that good stuff,
but I have been unable to keep it from crashing my system.
But I heard it's not that cheap,
and I did not hear about an evaluation version of it.
DV/X costs about $150 on the American market I believe. You can get
info about it from "info AT qdeck DOT com".
--Steve
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