From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Emacs or RHide
Date: 10 May 1997 17:27:10 GMT
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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, everything
> starts out just fine; but, after awhile (quite a ways into the make), I
> get a "virtual memory exhausted" error.  Could this be because I am
> doing this from Win95?  My second problem is the frustratingly user
> unfriendly GNU Emacs!!  When I use Emacs without DJGPP on my system, it
> works fine, but when I install DJGPP, Emacs refuses to even run!  Should
> I just use RHide instead?  What's so great about Emacs anyway?  Can you
> even compile programs from within Emacs?  Well, that's about it.  Thanks
> for your time and help:-)

At risk of starting an old Holy War(tm), EMACS sucks. Stick to RHIDE. They
don't call EMACS Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping for nothing.
Or EMACS Makes A Cray Slow...
:)
As for making Allegro, if you use a win95 DOS box, set the DPMI memory to
65535. If that still doesn't work, reboot, hold F8, and choose Command
Prompt Only and run it there. (This is likely a problem only on an 8 meg
machine.)

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