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> From: Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 12:12:37 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> Okay, tried again (DOSEMU), added C:\EMACS\GNU\EMACS\BIN to %PATH%
> just in case (didn't help). Still crashed when typing 'e' (edit) under
> Dired (C-x d) on blah.sh file (though most other files are okay).

It doesn't crash for me on Windows XP.  Does every .sh file cause a
crash?  What other files are "not okay", and in what ways?

Can you post the traceback, even if it's just numerical addresses?

> And *.mod still isn't recognized by default for font-lock.

When you visit a *.mod file, do you see some special mode being turned
on?  I see "Fundamental", which makes sense because .mod is not in
auto-mode-alist.  So this is a missing feature in Emacs, not a
DJGPP-specific bug.  Feel free to ask for an enhancement by typing
"M-x report-emacs-bug RET".

> IIRC, Emacs needs (at compile time?) to know in advance what *.el
> font lock files are available

That's not true.  If you have some optional mode that is not part of
Emacs, you need to set it up:

  . put it somewhere where Emacs will find it (the recommended place
    is the site-lisp subdirectory)

  . add an autoload command for it in your _emacs

  . add an appropriate association to auto-mode-alist.

> Oh, and '\' is treated as a C escape, so that also messes up
> font lock for the rest of the file, heh, oh well.

In what mode?

> Other than these (very) minor quibbles, it works! So I'm not
> complaining. (Though I don't have any 512 MB files to test, heh.)

You can easily create it with a simple Awk script which writes lines
of fixed length.