Gosling Emacs source code

[larsbrinkhoff]

You were asking about Gosling Emacs source code:

Does anyone have a copy of Gosling's EMACS C source code? I had this a long time ago, but I've lost it. I can't find it anywhere on the net (it was withdrawn from the public domain, but surely there must be old versions around).

Yesterday, I got tarballs from Brian Reid, and copied them here with James Gosling's blessing:

https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/tree/sources/reid.org/%7Ebrian/misc

The 1999 copy has RCS history going back to 1986.

[jhallen]

Wow, nice!

Maybe I will fix it to compile on recent machines...

The notice in the Installation file is interesting:

"Please remember that Emacs is copyrighted. You are free to use Emacs internally, but you are not free to redistribute it. If someone is interested in obtaining a copy of Emacs, refer them to me:

                    James Gosling           [Gosling@CMUA]
                    Computer Science
                    Carnegie-Mellon University
                    Pittsburgh PA
                    15213"

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:29 AM, Lars Brinkhoff notifications@github.com wrote:

You were asking about Gosling Emacs source code http://comp.editors.narkive.com/a1xVkz8E/gosling-emacs-source:

Does anyone have a copy of Gosling's EMACS C source code? I had this a long time ago, but I've lost it. I can't find it anywhere on the net (it was withdrawn from the public domain, but surely there must be old versions around).

Yesterday, I got tarballs from Brian Reid, and copied them here with James Gosling's blessing:

https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/tree/sources/reid.org/% 7Ebrian/misc

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[larsbrinkhoff]

Right. I got permission to publish the tarballs from James Gosling. But if some people actually want to use it, the copyright situation should be cleared first.

[neozeed]

ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/dec/decus/emacs.tap

/ Current Emacs version / char version[] = "Emacs #264 of Mon May 16"; containing Emaces */

and later on: Copyright (c) 1983 James Gosling

This is apparently Gosling Emacs from 1984 tape. The decus tape label is : UniPress Software Inc. PRODUCT: EMACS SCREEN EDITOR VAX/SUN UNIX 4.2 Source (C)1983 tar S/N # 1054 7/84

[larsbrinkhoff]

Thanks @neozeed, I snarfed it. What tape format is it?

[neozeed]

I would assume with the tap extension it may be something like the SIMH tape format. I just ran strings against it, and it looks like tar inside. the C is perfectly legible if you want to take the dozens of house to copy out the files one at a time.... . :\

[larsbrinkhoff]

No, I can probably figure it out. I just thought you knew already, in which case I wouldn't need to guess.

[neozeed]

I found an old program to extract a file from a tap. I forget where I found it, but I just shoved it in a repo.

https://github.com/neozeed/detap

I think it may be short reading at the end of emacs.doc , although I haven't verified. but the rest of it sure looks fine. Last source change is:

28/06/1984 05:18 PM 23,572 mchan.c

And the directory has this as emacs 4.2

[larsbrinkhoff]

Yes, the tap file is truncated or malformed. Still, cool find!

[neozeed]

If it counts for anything, I found another far more elaborate un-tap program, they both gave the same output.

C:\Users\jason\Downloads>md5 emacs_tap2file.001 948abc3bab419b669976936eeb74827d emacs_tap2file.001

C:\Users\jason\Downloads>md5 emacs.tar 948abc3bab419b669976936eeb74827d emacs.tar

If I come across any other emacs stuff in my journeys's I'll be sure to give you a shout!

[larsbrinkhoff]

Thanks!

I looked at a hexdump, and it's clear that the last block isn't right. There's a block length field, but no data. Also, the last file is truncated mid-sentence.