Re: tlug: Canna with Emacs 20.2 on RH 5.0?

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@example.com> writes:

>>>>> "ash" == Andrew S Howell <andy@example.com> writes:

    Stephen> The only problem I have with MIME messages is that VM
    Stephen> refuses to display messages with charsets that are
    Stephen> unknown.  This includes all "windows-12xx" and
    Stephen> "codepage-yyy" charsets, so if you get a lot of mail from
    Stephen> Windose-afflicted correspondents, this may be too
    Stephen> annoying.  I happen to agree with Kyle's stiff-necked
    Stephen> orneriness on this issue.

If windows users can't send me something readable, then its straight
to /dev/null :) I need a filter that does that automatically with .doc
files...

    Stephen> The first time you install from source with packages is
    Stephen> likely to be a hassle.  Not hard, but tedious, because
    Stephen> the dependencies aren't well worked out.

I think someone put together a tar file with all packages didn't they?
Something like "sumo.tar.gz"...

I've compiled up earlier XEmacs 21.x betas, I don't remember it being
too painful.

    Stephen> I think the current version of XEmacs (21.0.63) is very
    Stephen> close to release.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Andy
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