From: huebner AT usakov DOT gmd DOT de (Uwe Huebner)
Subject: Re: demacs problem: Cannot open load file: userlock (fwd)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 9:43:41 MET DST

Hi! I forward this reply of me to Gerry since it might be
interesting for some people. I'm also interested in other
combinations of DEMACS, make, and DJs port to DOS. The worst thing
is that I cannot use 4DOS! Is anybody out there with a working
DEMACS, 4DOS, make, gcc -combination???

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> From huebner Wed Sep 23 09:35:39 1992
> Subject: Re: demacs problem: Cannot open load file: userlock
> To: "Gerry Toon" <gerryt AT wimsey DOT bc DOT ca>
> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 9:35:39 MET DST
> In-Reply-To: <m0mW8qz-000170C AT wimsey DOT bc DOT ca>; from "Gerry Toon" at Sep 19, 92 10:44 am
> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL10]
> 
> > 	Check your environment. Do you have TZ set to anything? If so do
> > this in your emacs.bat file : set TZ=
> > and when exiting : set TZ="your deutschland-timezone"
> > If that aint it - I don't know...
> > 
> It was it! Thanks!!!!
> 
> > >Another question:
> > >
> > >How can I work with emacs and DJs gnu port without hanging my system
> > >quite often? Especially after having executed the 'compile' command
> > >and an error occured during compilation, emacs cannot find the
> > >shell, whereas a warning is tolerated and hangs my computer only every
> > >third time.
> > 	command.com has to 'permanent'. In config.sys you say :
> > shell=c:\command.com /p /E:lots of environment space
> > 
> > If you have done this - what's your BIOS type? There may be a bug...
> > 
> > Also which 'make' are you using? I've tried quite a few and they ALL
> > hang my demacs sessions. It seems that PROTECTED executables will run
> > though - not ordinary dos exes. Have you tried to shell a make ? As in :
> > Control x ! make
> > 
> Yesterday I played around with some combinations again
> (suspecting 4DOS and the SHELL-Environment setting).
> 
> BTW: I use the GO32 dos extender and _not_ the original emacs dos
>      extender. GO32 seemed to work much more stable than emacs.
> 
> Now it looks like that I've found a solution that works:
> 
> Don't use 4DOS! (That's cruel since I like it so much!)
> Use the DOS (5.0) command shell as recommended above!
> 
> set SHELL=c:/dos/command.com          (_not_ c:\dos\command.com)
> 
> Use the MAKE358.ZIP (sort of GNU make I think)!
> I hope it's still around out there!
> 
> 

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