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[Emacs-diffs] emacs/etc PROBLEMS
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
[Emacs-diffs] emacs/etc PROBLEMS |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:12:51 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/emacs
Module name: emacs
Changes by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz> 08/12/19 11:12:51
Modified files:
etc : PROBLEMS
Log message:
(MS-DOS): Document the problems on Vista.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/emacs/etc/PROBLEMS?cvsroot=emacs&r1=1.261&r2=1.262
Patches:
Index: PROBLEMS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/etc/PROBLEMS,v
retrieving revision 1.261
retrieving revision 1.262
diff -u -b -r1.261 -r1.262
--- PROBLEMS 18 Dec 2008 19:19:00 -0000 1.261
+++ PROBLEMS 19 Dec 2008 11:12:51 -0000 1.262
@@ -3493,7 +3493,7 @@
** MS-DOS
-*** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows NT, "config msdos" fails.
+*** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows NT or later, "config msdos" fails.
If the error message is "VDM has been already loaded", this is because
Windows has a program called `redir.exe' that is incompatible with a
@@ -3501,13 +3501,19 @@
config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to
the front of your PATH environment variable.
+*** When Emacs compiled with DJGPP runs on Vista, it runs out of memory.
+
+If Emacs running on Vista displays "!MEM FULL!" in the mode line, you
+are hitting the memory allocation bugs in the Vista DPMI server. See
+msdos/INSTALL for how to work around these bugs (search for "Vista").
+
*** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows 95, Make fails for some targets
like make-docfile.
This can happen if long file name support (the setting of environment
variable LFN) when Emacs distribution was unpacked and during
-compilation are not the same. See the MSDOG section of INSTALL for
-the explanation of how to avoid this problem.
+compilation are not the same. See msdos/INSTALL for the explanation
+of how to avoid this problem.
*** Emacs compiled with DJGPP complains at startup:
@@ -3580,8 +3586,8 @@
characters and a numeric tail that Windows 95 normally attaches to it.
You should unzip the files again with a utility that supports long
filenames (such as djtar from DJGPP or InfoZip's UnZip program
-compiled with DJGPP v2). The MSDOG section of the file INSTALL
-explains this issue in more detail.
+compiled with DJGPP v2). The file msdos/INSTALL explains this issue
+in more detail.
Another possible reason for such failures is that Emacs compiled for
MSDOS is used on Windows NT, where long file names are not supported