Re: Fatal error (11). Emacs/ Linux hosed my very long document.

[Rick]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:37:56 -0700, Mike Cox wrote:

> I recently switched to xemacs as my default word processor so I could
> do formatting in TEX for a very long document.  Most recently I've
> been using Microsoft Word, the latest version.  I switched because I
> thought that emacs had perfect stability and no crashes.  My
> perception was formed due to the constant FSF/GPL/Linux advocacy
> promoted on slashdot and all the comp newsgroups.
> 
>(snip)
> 
> Much to my dismay, as I was working on my very long review (about 100
> pages typed), xemacs core dumped on me.  I was unable to recover
> anything.  I didn't save my document because I never expected emacs to
> core dump.
> 
> linux:~ # xemacs
>  
> Fatal error (11).
>  
> Your files have been auto-saved.
> Use `M-x recover-session' to recover them.

hmmmmm .....

-- 
Rick