From:	Ian Miller <itmiller AT dra DOT hmg DOT gb DOT removeme>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Emacs or RHide
Date:	09 May 1997 13:11:36 +0100
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"J. Ellis" <cellis AT voyageur DOT ca> writes:

> 
> I downloaded DJGPP, RHIDE, Emacs, and Allegro, but now I am having some
> major problems.  First of all, when I try to "make" Allegro... after a
> while... I get a "virtual memory exhausted" error. Could this be because
> I am doing this from Win95?

You should set your DOS box memory properties so that the DPMI memory limit
is 65535 (the maximum possible) if you haven't already done so. That might
help.

> My second problem is the frustratingly user unfriendly GNU Emacs!!

Never heard of it!

> When I use Emacs without DJGPP on my system, it works fine, but when I
> install DJGPP, Emacs refuses to even run!

Oh, *Emacs* "the programmer's friend". Exactly which version are we
talking about here? You know you can get the latest version of the official
GNU Emacs sources (v19.34b, I think) and compile them using djgpp? And that
you can get a precompiled version from the DJGPP Web site? It works. DJGPP
works. Everything works. Trust me, you have installed something
incorrectly or you have some other version of emacs that we can't vouch
for in c.o.m.d.

> Should I just use RHide instead?

Why not? It works too :-)

> Can you even compile programs from within Emacs?

Yes you can.

Persevere,
-- 
Ian Miller, Dorset, UK
DJGPP 2.01, Win95 DOS box (LFN undefined, FNCASE=y)

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