Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 1998 16:11:42 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	ken <krstone AT bellatlantic DOT net>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Ediff locks up emacs.
In-Reply-To:	<350F234E.74260158@bellatlantic.net>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980318161123.21675K@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, ken wrote:

> I have emacs here at home but didn't have diff.

Which version of Emacs is that?  Please also post the size and the
time stamp of your emacs.exe, apart of the version info.  The latest
binary distribution of Emacs compiled with DJGPP is v19.34 whose size
is 1,705,984 bytes and time stamp is Dec 14, 1997 18:04.

> I downloaded DIF271D.zip & DIF271B.zip from djgpp.
> I unzipped as usual and everything went to the correct location.
> The problem is that when I run Ediff on two files emacs freezes up in my
> DOS box on my Win95 machine.

I cannot reproduce this behavior.  Ediff works for me on Windows 95
(and also in plain DOS) in both Emacs 19.34 (the latest binary) and
Emacs 20.2.

If you have the same version as I mention above, please perform these
steps and post the results:

      emacs -q
      M-x ediff RET file1 RET file2 RET

(substitute the names of the files you want to compare for `file1' and
`file2').

If Emacs freezes at this point, press Ctrl-BREAK and see if that
causes it to ``unfreeze''.  If that doesn't help, press Ctrl-BREAK
twice in rapid succession; it should cause Emacs to ask you whether
you want to abort.  Answer YES, and Emacs will print a traceback of
its function call stack; please post this traceback.

Also, please perform the following steps and post the contents of the
"*Help*" buffer as displayed by Emacs:

      emacs -q
      C-h v process-environment RET

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