Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/09/08/09:11:57
On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> (oops, Win95 ;-)) it starts, shows the invitation screen but just for a short
>> while. After that the screen flashes and I back to the command prompt. What
>> might be the cause of this problem?
>
>Try setting LFN=y and LFN=n explicitly in the environment and see if any
>of these two make Emacs work on Windows 95. Depending on which one works,
>I might guess what's wrong and suggest a solution.
Ok. I'll do it and let you know.
>
>Which program did you use to unzip the .tar.gz distribution?
DJTAR. I did the whole thing in plain MS-DOG with all LFN support disabled. It
compiled perfectly and without any problem. In the DOS box of WinNT 3.51 it
works OK. Only Win95 causes the problem.
>> task. AFAIK GDB can run as a debugging server alongside with it's frontend.
>> The frontend task is to interpret messages and strings passed from GDB and
>> respond to them in appropriate way, either by sending back some message to GDB
>> or showing the user what's going on. Why isn't it possible under MS-DOG (I
>> mean it is possible, but not from under Emacs).
>
>This is not how the debugger interface in Emacs works. The way it is
>written, it runs the debugger as an asynchronous process, and that just
>doesn't work on MSDOS.
Well, that's too bad then. I haven't looked into Emacs sources yet, but would
it be very hard to re-write the GDB interface in a way consistent with its
client-server structure?
Mark
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