[TUHS] UniPress Emacs V2.20 from 1989

Ron Natalie ron at ronnatalie.com
Sat Apr 19 10:21:58 AEST 2025


I might be inclined to take a stab.   Gosmacs was my editor of choice 
for years.   I even worked for Unipress for a few months.



------ Original Message ------
>From "Blake McBride" <blake1024 at gmail.com>
To "Jeff Johnson" <trnsz at pobox.com>
Cc "TUHS" <tuhs at tuhs.org>
Date 4/18/2025 8:19:28 PM
Subject [TUHS] Re: UniPress Emacs V2.20 from 1989

>Greetings,
>
>I worked on the MS-DOS version many years ago.  I'd really love to see 
>this on modern Linux!!
>
>Thanks!!
>
>Blake McBride
>
>
>On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM Jeff Johnson <trnsz at pobox.com> wrote:
>>I got it mostly compiled on a modern Linux system with a bit of 
>>hacking, but got stuck at curses incompatibilities due to some 
>>defintions and it was more work than I was planning on.   I might have 
>>time to take another look at it this weekend, though.
>>
>>What would be more worthwhile would be building the VMS, MS-DOS, etc. 
>>versions that were officially supported.
>>
>>--
>>Jeffrey H. Johnson
>>trnsz at pobox.com
>>
>>On Fri, Apr 18, 2025, at 1:36 AM, Henry Bent wrote:
>>>On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 at 23:35, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
>>>>The floppy label says it's for AIX, but the source code hits it runs 
>>>>on
>>>>Sun, IRIS, Apollo, HP, X10, X11, Amiga, Mac, MS-DOS, Xenix.
>>>>
>>>>https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/tree/sources/Hans%20H%C3%BCbner
>>>
>>>Neat!  This built very cleanly on IRIX 4 (what I had up at the 
>>>moment); I imagine that it will work with minimal effort on any 
>>>commercial UNIX from the appropriate (~1989) timeframe.
>>>
>>>-Henry
>>
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