From: Ross Litscher Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Emacs or RHide Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 19:29:32 -0400 Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3373B35C.9E5@osu.edu> References: Reply-To: Litscher DOT 1 AT osu DOT edu NNTP-Posting-Host: s-100-225.resnet.ohio-state.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk 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.