From: myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Emacs 19.34
Date: 4 Feb 1998 00:22:24 GMT
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"An Thi-Nguyen Le" <anle AT students DOT uiuc DOT edu> writes:
> Good morning.
> 
> I am running DGJPP 2 on a Pentium running Windows 95,
> with a DPMI memory of
> 19507 KB.  The problem is that emacs crashes on startup,
> which apparently
> was at least not a unique problem, according to the mail
> archives.  I don't
> know if it even qualifies as much for a crash as for
> 'not starting at all'.
>  No hanging, either, just a nice exit.  

That is a really weird and unique thing, the way emacs does that.  I remember
it doing that a long time ago.  It still does it when I try to use emacs from
just DOS and not from DOS-within-Windows.  On a hunch I did tried something:

I changed the line, "set LFN=y", in my autoexec.bat to "rem set LFN=y".  When I
restarted, emacs behaved exactly as you describe, i.e. it exited on invocation.

[snip]
> My djgpp environment is the same, ever since I first
> downloaded dgjpp. 
> Relavent portions of my autoexec.bat:
> 
> set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Perl\bin;C:\JDK1.1.5\BIN
> set PATH=%PATH%;C:\smlnj\bin
> set SMLNJ_HOME=C:\smlnj
> set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Djgpp\bin
> set DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV
> set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Djgpp\gnu\emacs\bin

Try adding this:
set LFN=y

That turns on djgpp programs' long file name handling.

> If anyone can help, I will be grateful.  If not, I will
> simply go back to
> vi, which takes up less space anyways.  

--Ed (Myknees)