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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:52:42 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: emacs hangs my machine 
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At 08:47 PM 2/23/99 +0100, you wrote:
>fs: sel=00d7  base=00000000  limit=ffffffff
>gs: sel=00d7  base=00000000  limit=ffffffff

Good grief! Two completely wide open selectors. You could format a hard
drive using those things by overwriting the cached FAT. Your lucky Emacs
scribbled on something really sensitive and hung the box before i had the
chance.

Who did this in emacs? Is it the nearptr hack? I thought that just failed
completely under W9x.

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