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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:21:18 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: emacs hangs my machine
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Martin Stromberg wrote:
> 
> WINDOZE 4.1 (98), open DOZE box, run emacs, "C-x C-f e:/a/1 RET" (read in
> the file e:/a/1) which is 1MB, "C- " (set mark), "M->" (goto end), "C-w"
> (kill-region). Now the cursor changes to a timeglass and the machine is
> completely stuck. Not even C-Alt-Del works.
> 
> Sometimes, after "C-w", the DOZE box's screen is corrupted.
> 
> emacs is the DJGPP one from a simtel mirror (probably the latest one, unless
> there has been a new upload since 990220).
> 
> Any ideas?

I'd guess it's to do with the Emacs feature whereby kills are copied to
the Windows clipboard.  Earlier Windowses (Windies??) limited this by
free conventional memory, so your kill shouldn't have fit within it. 
Perhaps somebody, either Emacs or Windows, is confused as to the size of
this buffer and overruns it, or something?  Does anyone know if '98
changed its behavior wrt the clipboard?

I haven't tried to reproduce this, but I have access to a '98 box if
necessary.
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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com