Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:19:34 -0300
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
        Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: Emacs 19.34 and Windows 3.1
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 09:52 17/09/96 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:
>
>> DPMI memory available: 13044 Kb
>> DPMI swap space available: 0 Kb
>                            ^^^^^
>*NO* swap space?  What kind of Windows installation is that??  Please
>check these items (in that order) and post the results: 
>
>	- free disk space (before and after starting Windows)
  33513472 bytes free, before running Windows

  33505280 bytes free, after (on a DOS box)


>	- the type and size of the Windows swap file
Type 'permanent' size 19.696 K (for a 8 Mbytes machine, default value)

>	- do you use 32bit disk access and (if that's Windows 3.11) 32bit 
>	  file access?
No. It is Windows 3.1.

>	- the settings of XMS and EMS on the emacs.pif file you use (yes, 
>	  I know it's from the distribution, but check anyway)
>
EMS are zeroed both the 'necessary' and the 'limit'
XMS are 'necessary': 0, 'limit': -1

>> DPMI memory available: 704 Kb
>> DPMI swap space available: 11880 Kb
>
>Does this change also happen if you run any DJGPP program other than gcc?
>

Yes. I tried with some programs from the RCS package and TEXI2PS.

>> As a last clue, some usual test programs like the GRX 2.0, bcc2grx, even all
>> from the GNAT suite compile and run from the DOS box w/o trouble.
>
>Can you please try to run `temacs.exe' on this (problematic) system, as 
>well as on a machine where Emacs works, and report the results?  Don't 
>expect too much from `temacs', but it should start, show the startup 
>screen, allow you to use some basic editing commands, and exit without 
>crashing.  This is how you should invoke `temacs':
>
>	temacs -l loadup
>
In the problematic machine:

Warning: arch-dependent data dir (/usr/local/lib/emacs/etc/) does not exist.
Please set the environment variable TERM; see tset(1).

The non problematic machines have had the src/ sub-dir stripped, so this
test (on them) will come soon.

TIA
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