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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>, <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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Subject: Re: emacs under w2k
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 11:45:56 +1000
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

Laurynas,

This is the first emacs issue with W2K/XP that I have seen. I don't use
emacs so I have not seen this.

> I've rebuilt emacs 20.5 with 2.03 refresh on my w2k machine. It
> mostly works OK, however I'm experiencing unexpected exits time
> from time. I don't see any reasonble pattern there (sometimes it
> exits from 'M-x tetris', sometimes when trying to set global font
> locking etcetera).
>
> I've searched djgpp-workers archives to no avail about this one. Is
> it known behaviour? Is there any way I could help to track it down?

Do the crashes occur when emacs is updateing a block of characters on the
screen? I get crashes in Rhide when I open/close menus, but it is random and
does not occur at the same spot.

What video card do you have? This may be way off mark, but never know.

One test could be to boot into real dos on the same PC and see if it still
crashes occasionally. This would rule out or in the actual hardware,
assuming it could be video related.

> The system is w2k sp2 srp1 + all critical fixes on pII-375 196 RAM.
> TIA,