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From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: vim (dos32) hangs under djgpp bash
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Date: 25 Jan 2002 08:14:13 GMT
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PAVOL  JUHAS (juhas AT blue DOT seas DOT upenn DOT edu) wrote:
: I have a frequent problems with Win98 getting frozen, when using vim
: (version 6.0 for dos32 djgpp) under djgpp2.03 bash (ver.2.04.7).  The
: system gets completely non-responding and the only way out is to restart
: the computer.  These crashes happen quite randomly, usually while
: exiting vim.  I found a reliable way of reproducing them by running

:     vim -c q; vim -c q

: This problem does not appear with vimd32 under ordinary dos box,
: neither with MS-Win 32bit console vim under bash.
: A relevant usenet post seems to be
:     http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=Pine.GSO.3.96.980827095958.1201A-100000%40rtbsci146s
: however it is not clear to me how to fix the problem.

That post is very old and that problem should be corrected long ago,
but I'm not sure.

: Can anybody help?  Thanks,

Try running in plain DOZE (both outside bash and within) and see if it
crashes. If it does post the crash message.

Alternatively there were recently (weeks or a month ago) a person
having vim crashing for him, so there were/are definitely a bug in
vim. Perhaps he can give you information how to find a patched vim.


Right,

						MartinS

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