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Add info on VMS versions.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Mon, 07 Oct 2002 22:45:18 +0000
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85 Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools 85 Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools
86 that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The 86 that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The
87 platform-specific README files and installation instructions should 87 platform-specific README files and installation instructions should
88 list the required tools. 88 list the required tools.
89
90 VMS info:
91
92 Emacs 19.x and above do not compile out of the box on OpenVMS.
93 Richard Levitte <levitte@lp.se> is distributing and maintaining a
94 version of Emacs (currently based on version 19.28, but soon moving to
95 19.34 and then 20.1) that compiles and works on OpenVMS 5.5 and above
96 on both VAX and Alpha architectures. For more information see
97
98 http://vms.gnu.org/software/released1/emacs.html#get_emacs_1928_kit
99
100 There is also some effort going on with Emacs 21. Source code is
101 available at ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/vms/emacs/. Look for most
102 recent stuff with ls -lta.
103
104 It is a working "development" version (editing and much more works).
105 More developers are needed; contact roart@nvg.ntnu.no.