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@@ -125,13 +125,16 @@ Uniplus 5.2 (-opsystem=unipl5-2)
Works, on Dual machines at least.
-VMS (-opsystem=vms)
+VMS (-opsystem=vmsM.N)
Works except for certain features (directory listing, dired,
sending and receiving mail) that use synchronous subprocesses.
We need people to write alternative implementations of these
facilities.
+ The config file s/vms5-5.h may be right for some earlier versions;
+ please let us know what happens when you try it in VMS versions 5.0 thru 5.4.
+
Note that Emacs for VMS is usually distributed in a special
VMS distribution. See the file ../VMSINSTALL for info on moving
Unix distributions to VMS, and other VMS-related topics.