From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <199901091841.TAA17259@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: emacs is playing hide and seek
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 19:41:56 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.981227143942.434L-100000@is> from Eli Zaretskii at "Dec 27, 98 02:40:02 pm"
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Sorry for taking so long to answer, but as I tested your question
everything became clear: it was a LFN problem. So I started on hacking
statfs and forgot. Anyway here are the answers to help others (and
improving my descency).

According to Eli Zaretskii:
> 
> On 26 Dec 1998, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> 
> > I have a really strange problem. I have bash up and running in WINDOZE
> > 4.1 (98). Other commands seem to be working but when I try to start
> > emacs some seconds pass and then I get back the bash prompt.
> 
> Questions:
> 
>   - Does it work on the same system under ye olde COMMAND.COM?

Yes. That's what I couldn't understand. Until I remebered that DJGPP
2.02 has LFN=y as default.

>   - Does it work when invoked as "emacs -q"?

No.

>   - Does it work with LFN=n and with LFN=y?

LFN=n, yes. LFN=y, no.

>   - What does the following yield in the file `emacs.log':
> 
> 	 redir -o emacs.log -eo emacs -q

"Cannot open load file: case-table".

>   - Finally, what version of Emacs is this, and where did you get it?

It's the DJGPP port of course, version "GNU Emacs 19.34". From a
mirror of a mirror. 

> 
> > The DJGPP directory is mounted from a samba server read-only on P:
> 
> Did you try moving Emacs to a local disk?  Did it help?

Didn't try that.

> 
> > Here's the output from go32-v2.exe:
> > ----- go32-v2 output start. -----
> > Usage: go32 coff-image [args]
> 
> You have omitted the first line of what go32-v2 prints.  I don't think
> it matters in this case, but please try to avoid such omissions.

Yes. Sorry. Cut and paste.

Anyway the problem was that I had exported my old DJGPP tree from the
SAMBA server which had it mounted as "msdos" and not "vfat". Hence no
LFN, but it was set to LFN=y in the DJGPP.ENV file.


Right,

							MartinS