Message-ID: <20000803085650.13661.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [208.160.246.197] From: "Nimrod Abing" To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Mother Novell, DJGPP, and Emacs: Friends? Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 16:56:50 PHT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello! I am working at a school computer lab with a LAN running MS-DOS/Novell. Recently, the Business Software Alliance have been breathing down the necks of the school's top brass urging them to "licence" all software. Buckeroo$ for BSA members!!! The school's MS-DOS/Novell system is licenced, however, the compilers installed on this system are unlicenced (read: pirated) copies. The school's top brass is looking for alternatives, cheaper ones at that. I first looked at installing Gnu/Linux, but the cost of hardware upgrades and staff training are prohibitively expensive. So I decided to install DJGPP instead. Cheaper and easier. The LAN is set up as a single server with 50 clients running as diskless workstations. So DJGPP is installed in single directory on the server, and it is shared by the clients. I have installed the following DJGPP packages: faq230b.zip, djdev203.zip, upx101d.zip, rhide14b.zip, txt20b.zip, fil316b.zip, gcc2952b.zip, gdb418b.zip, gpp2952b.zip, mak3781b.zip, mak379s.zip, shl112b.zip, txi40b.zip, bnu210b.zip I would also like to install Gnu Emacs, but I am worried about file sharing. I want to configure Emacs so that it remembers the places in files that it has been to (_places). I have already thought one way of doing this, which is to modify _emacs to write _places into the appropriate user's home directory. As an aside, are there more issues that I should be aware of when using/installing DJGPP on Novell networks? And oh yes, I've read the FAQ. I installed DJGPP July 1, 2000 so far no serious problems. Thanks in advance. Your help will help the proliferation of Free Software throughout the Philippines. ---------------- _nimrod_a_abing_ ------------------------------------------ Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/n_abing ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com