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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:14:37 -0500
From: ken <krstone AT bellatlantic DOT net>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Ediff locks up emacs.
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It will hang comparing any files.  Even comparing the same file such as
the
readme.1st file in djgpp/.

The tmp dirs exist.

Emacs hangs when the diff is complete I think.
The dos window heading says:
MS-DOS Prompt - EMACS

The bottom of the emacs says:
Processing difference regions ... done

Then it just sits there with the cursor on the question mark.

Then I try to type 'j' or 'n' but it's frozen...

The diff file info is:
diff.exe    134,656    10-19-96    11:27a




Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, ken wrote:
>
> > The Ctrl-Break doesn't work, not even the twice rapidly method...
>
> This means it hangs in some DOS call, possibly when invoking `diff'.
>
> What does the DOS box show in its caption bar when Emacs hangs?  When
> Emacs runs external program, the name of that program should be
> displayed on the caption bar.  Please tell me what do you see there.
>
> Also, please tell the size and time stamp of diff.exe, and the names
> of the files you typed at the Ediff prompts (the files you wanted to
> compare).
>
> And please make sure that the directory pointed to by the TMPDIR
> environment variable exists and has enough free space.



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