From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sami Sihvonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: configure script Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 17:56:58 +0300 Organization: Janiika Networks Corporation Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <61D0BADD.74BBFB3A.B8B383E9@netscape.net> <200206081915.g58JFT128804@aztec.santafe.edu> <538dgukrilgffka0tdkddf7hdph4i9b5va@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024325491 4091 127.0.0.1 (17 Jun 2002 14:51:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:51:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Jxqt-00013l-00 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 16:51:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Jxqv-0000s1-00; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:51:33 -0400 Original-Received: from ashd1-1.relay.mail.uu.net ([199.171.54.245]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17JxpT-0000kY-00 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from pete.fi.eu.org by mr0.ash.ops.us.uu.net with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: pete.fi.eu.org [213.28.99.109]) id QQmtqp12801 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:49:53 GMT Original-Received: (qmail 34204 invoked by uid 8); 17 Jun 2002 14:49:51 -0000 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.137.154.222 Original-X-Trace: pete.fi.eu.org 1024325391 34198 194.137.154.222 (17 Jun 2002 14:49:51 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@pete.fi.eu.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:49:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/16.553 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2092 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2092 In article , eliz@is.elta.co.il (Eli Zaretskii) wrote: >> GNU Emacs v20.5 for MS-DOS crashes under Micros~1 Windows 3.11 >> for Workgroups running default settings. > Thanks, this is a known problem with Windows 3.11. GNU Emacs should report this when starting it, give information about having too little memory. Now you can use GNU Emacs v20.5 running under Windows 3.11 and get mysterious crashes blamed on Windows 3.11 kernel even when editing small files. You need to open a very big file to get warning from Emacs about low memory. > The Emacs distribution _does_ include emacs.pif, you can find it in the > msdos directory. When it was added and is it included in all distributions? My GNU Emacs v20.5 did not have it. I got mine with DJGPP distribution. There were several zip-files, I did not download any binary files. Maybe it was included there? Anyhow, this is not important. Important is that this problem should be documented clearly in distributions since this is very vital information. And maybe it would be wise to hack source code to give better warning about this problem. Disclaimer (this needs expaining), why I use MS-Win v3.11? I have one PC-laptop with special hardware that needs Win311. Normally I use GNU/Debian, but I need that laptop's special features for work. And ofcourse I wan't GNU Emacs in that laptop too. :-) -- Sami Sihvonen, Chief Executive Officer, Janiika Networks Corporation.