Eric, As I'm learning a bit of *nix these days, and had used emacs eons ago on a VAX 3.x system, I'm delighted to hear that it's coming back to VMS. There was a company in New Jersey that ported emacs to VMS. Please do post to the perl list when you have *any* news on this front, or even, possibly, questions/problems during development. Of course, in the long run, it would be nice if this sort of porting were no longer necessary, which could happen if VMS engineers would try to do these ports themselves, cussed long enough, and made some more enhancements to unixism support (what an awful thought). On reflection, maybe I would prefer to have Compaq throw those resources at porting VMS to the Intel IA64 architecure... oh well, enough rambling [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 9:41 AM To: Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Any interest in porting emacs 20.x to OpenVMS v7.x While I don't have any good alternatives to autoconf, I can say that my employer (FactSet) was kind enough to agree to pay for a port of emacs v20.x to OpenVMS v7.x. I'd name the individual and his company, but I'm not sure if he wants to be hit with tons of requests. I can say that the individual is very knowledgeable about OpenVMS, and has been in and around GNU code before. So I'm expecting the port to work out fairly well. I'm expecting it to be completed during the summer time. The purpose of the port was our own selfish interests. Which means that while you get the source code and everything that goes with it, you'll get the assumptions that I was willing to make. For example, its unlikely this will work under the VAX, pre-v7.2 systems, or would even compile under anything but a recent DEC C compiler. But it beats telneting to a Unix box. :-> Hopefully I'll have some good news in July. -Eric Johnson
