From: Jim Winstead Jr. (jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu)
Date: 08/25/92


From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
Subject: Re: new X11 editor: aXe
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:37:36 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.144151.2046@athena.mit.edu> chchen@stat.fsu.edu writes:
>In my department our SA installed a new X11 editor called aXe which
>looks quite nice. I got the tar.Z file here but unfortunately I am
>just a newbie in GCC or compiler to port it (I will try anyway :) )
>Anyone already ported it to Linux?

I compiled this a while ago, and it goes pretty easily once you supply
a scandir() function, which you can snarf from the BSD sources.

The problem is that it coredumps in a rather unfortunate location
(when trying to shutdown all the buffers), so unless you like
sprinkling core files around your filesystem, it's a pain to use
(although it does still work - it saves the file then coredumps :).

I tracked the problem to a point (with the help of Jim Wight, the
author), but we weren't able to come up with anything, and suspect it
might be a problem with the X libraries for Linux. I've been waiting
for the next release of the X stuff before trying again.

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