Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!israel From: israel@umcp-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Re: emacs and 4.2 Message-ID: <5107@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 18:34:13 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.5107 Posted: Sat Feb 11 18:34:13 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 06:24:43 EST References: <16542@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 52 From: David ChaseOn a different subject, is anyone else annoyed at the number of cmu-specific hacks in the maclib? As distributed, "man" and "lisp" fail, for lack of some pathname with a cmu in it, and for lack of cmulisp. Yeah I know what you mean. We just installed Unipress Emacs, and I just got finished doing what I do whenever I receive a new Mlisp package or maclib; I diff against our version and integrate the two. This time I kept a simple log detailing what each package is, whether its local or not, and whether I had to do any fixing. I want to forward this stuff to Unipress since I've got a lot of fixes and extensions to distributed packages, and also packages that aren't in the standard distribution at all. Has anyone had any contact with Unipress about such a thing? I was a little miffed about them since some of that packages had minor bugs that stops them from being run, and some from even being loaded successfully!!! Don't they check that stuff before distributing it to paying customers? About the CMU specific things; that doesn't bother me that much since I usually have to change pathnames anyway to local paths, and we run regular franz and not CMUlisp. But that stuff should be un-CMU-ized by Unipress be distribution. In fact, one thing that came with the distribution was a package called 'whist.ml' that had the follwing comment in the top of it. ; This package implements the whist function to write ; history messages (just the same as whist on Unix). Now I don't know about your system, but we don't have a 'whist' on our 4.1bsd system, and in fact I have absolutely no idea about what it does!!! Oh well, what I've done with it is move it to our 'unused' directory (for Mlisp files that are inapplicable, unintelligible, ridiculous, superceded, or otherwise unused by our local populace). After I get the LOG file mentioned above cleaned up, I'd like to distribute it over this list and maybe get it filled out with any new packages and modified versions of old packages out there. Then maybe we can have an organized way of finding out what packages there are and trading them. Some of these packages came with the Unipress distribution which they are selling. I was wondering what the story is about redistributing those since you have to pay money for them. The old packages aren't a problem, since they came with the free version of Gosling's emacs. Anyone know the story on this? -- Bruce Israel University of Maryland, Computer Science {rlgvax,seismo}!umcp-cs!israel (Usenet) israel.umcp-cs@CSNet-Relay (Arpanet)