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> From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 07:39:45 GMT
>
> >> Kudos on using Emacs ;-)
> >
> >^.^  I just got started with it.  It's a wonderful program, but so
> >bug-ridden
> >on Windows 98!  I still haven't figured out what it meant when I went
> >'M-x
> >compile' and the output hung leaving nasty windowless processes all over
> >my system.  I might as well mention this, since it looks like there's
> >someone (not me certainly!) who understands Emacs here.
> 
> [snip: Emacs uses a nasty hack for pipes between Windows Emacs and
> DOS shell commands, leaving cmdproxy and winoldap processes strewn
> all over]

AFAIK, the latest versions of Emacs (v20.7 is the last) don't have
these problems.  If you still bump into them, please report the
problems to gnu.emacs.bug news group.