J R Gasser wrote:
>

[ Ken: 8MB is barely enough for X ]
 
> At present I'm trying to set up an old Mac IIcx that has 8 M ram but a
> big 21 inch screen with NetBSD because I want to use Emacs to edit
> whole pages at once.  There is no real hope of finding money for more
> memory at present, and I'm not convinced that it would be the best way
> to upgrade in any case.
> 
> Apart from having some serious difficulties in getting X11 to install
> (and no success yet) I only started trying to use X11 because the
> distribution version of Emacs wants to run with it (though it would be
> nice....) .

Ummmm....what kind of problems exactly are you having _installing_ the X11
binaries?  They should install the same way as all the others.  About the
only thing you'll need to change is that you need to add 

/usr/X11R6/lib

to /etc/ld.so.conf (assuming you're running a -current system), and I
guess you need to add /usr/X11R6/bin to your $PATH.

> Given the above comment that 8M is barely enough (which sounds about
> right) and that I don't care about running more than Emacs at present,
> can someone point me to an Emacs source that doesn't want to run over
> X11 but will run in the old-fashioned way on NetBSD 1.1 

If you don't have your display set, emacs should work just fine without X.
Even under X, if you start emacs as 'emacs -nw' it will start emacs in the
current pty (i.e. no window mode).

I hope this helps some.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
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