Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 14:53:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mark Habersack Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl To: Eli Zaretskii cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Emacs 19.34 again In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 ********************************************************************** So if you ask me how do I feel inside, I could honestly tell you we've been taken on a very long ride. And if my owners let me have free time some day, with all good intention I would probably run away! Clutching the short straw... ******************* http://ananke.amu.edu.pl/~grendel ****************