From:	Ross Litscher <Litscher DOT 1 AT osu DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Emacs or RHide
Date:	Fri, 09 May 1997 19:29:32 -0400
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Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > I downloaded DJGPP, RHIDE, Emacs, and Allegro, but now I am having some
> > major problems.  First of all, when I try to "make" Allegro, everything
> > starts out just fine; but, after awhile (quite a ways into the make), I
> > get a "virtual memory exhausted" error.  Could this be because I am
> > doing this from Win95?  My second problem is the frustratingly user
> > unfriendly GNU Emacs!!  When I use Emacs without DJGPP on my system, it
> > works fine, but when I install DJGPP, Emacs refuses to even run!  Should
> > I just use RHide instead?  What's so great about Emacs anyway?  Can you
> > even compile programs from within Emacs?  Well, that's about it.  Thanks
> > for your time and help:-)
> 
> RHIDE is supposed to be more easy to use and Emacs more complete.
> If you are new to the programming or you allready used DOS/Win IDEs I guess
> RHIDE will be better for you.
> 
> SET

I'd have to agree about the last statement. RHIDE looks exactly like
Borland C++ 3.0 for dos from what I remember.

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