>>>> "Fred" == Fred Laxton
<fred(a)laxton.net> writes:
Fred> Hi Adrian,
Fred> As far as Fink goes, they just install fink and then tell it to
Fred> install XEmacs. Here's the URL with the version information:
Fred>
http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/xemacs
Fred> As far as installing from FTP, sorry for not being specific:
Fred> I download the setup program and it starts up, but all of the mirror
Fred> sites to get XEmacs are ftp sites, I didn't see any http mirrors.
Fred> Since my client blocks ftp, I can't download using the net installer.
Thanks for the details, Fred!
Andy, how about this?
Could netinstaller support this?
It seems like a good idea.
Best regards,
Adrian
Fred> Thanks!
Fred> Fred
Fred> On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 18:05 US/Eastern, Adrian Aichner wrote:
>>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Laxton
<Laxton> writes:
>
Fred> Thank you for your work on XEmacs, my favorite editor. It
Fred> can do nearly anything (I probably need to learn how to do
Fred> the rest) and runs nearly everywhere.
>
> Glad to hear :-)
>
Fred> You might want to mention that OS X has the FINK project at
Fred>
fink.sourceforge.net that provides XEmacs for Mac OS X.
Fred> They have both binary and source versions available. It's
Fred> extremely easy to install either one, either with apt-get,
Fred> fink or the Fink Commander GUI package installer.
>
> What URLs should I point to?
>
> Where from?
>
Fred> I'm using it with 21.5 (beta9) that I installed using Fink
Fred> Commander (GUI for apt-get).
>
> I see.
>
Fred> One other request - is it possible to have http:// links for
Fred> downloading and installing XEmacs with the Windows
Fred> installer, in addition to the ftp:// links? The client I'm
>
> Please be more specific.
>
> What about
>
http://www.xemacs.org/Download/win32/setup.exe
> available behind the "Install Now!" link on
>
http://www.xemacs.org/Download/
> ?
>
> Which URLs on which page (URL please).
>
Fred> at doesn't allow ftp through their firewall, and while I was
Fred> able to download it manually, it didn't set it up a nicely
Fred> as the network install does.
>
> Yeah, http rules.
>
Fred> Thanks again,
>
> I'll see what I can do about your issues.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Adrian
>
Fred> Fred Laxton
Fred>
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>
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>
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Fred>
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Fred>
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Fred>
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