GNU Emacs for Mac OSCopyright (c) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice and permission notice are preserved, and that the distributor grants the recipient permission for further redistribution as permitted by this notice. Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions, provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.This directory contains the files needed to build GNU Emacs on the MacOS (8.1-9.0). Many of the major features of the Unix version aresupported: multiple frames, colors, scroll bars, menu bars, use of themouse, fontsets, international characters, input methods, and codingsystems.Mac OS specific support includes document drag-and-drop in the Finder,transfer of text to and from other applications via the clipboard, andsending AppleScript commands to other applications from Emacs.The following are not yet supported: unexec (dump-emacs), asynchronoussubprocesses (start-process), and networking(open-network-stream).There is basic support for synchronous subprocesses (call-process)although Unix commands that are used will need to be ported to theMac.Metrowerks CodeWarrior Pro 5 or Pro 6 or MPW-GM (August 2000) can beused to build Emacs on the Mac OS. See the INSTALL file in thisdirectory for instructions on building Emacs.Binary distributions are available in ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mac/emacs/At this site you can also find an FAQ related to running GNU Emacs onMac OS.Andrew.<akochoi@i-cable.com>