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From: Daniel Barker <sokal AT holyrood DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: EMACS, Invalid Page Exception, Windows 98
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 19:00:28 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

[snip]

> A workaround would be to bump up the Emacs stack size:
> 
>         stubedit emacs.exe minstack=1024k
> 
> This won't make the problem go away entirely, but it will allow you to
> edit more complex BibTeX files without crashing.  If you have lots of
> memory on your machine, and you use BibTeX a lot, use 2048k or even
> 4096k instead of 1024k.

Thank you very much for the explanation and this advice. I have now set
stack size to 4096k, and the problem is fixed.

(Note: the form of my author entry was wrong, but even the correct form
would cause a crash before I changed stack size.)

-- 
Daniel Barker.

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