Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 13:15:40 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Robert Kosmalski <abced AT pinnacle DOT net DOT au>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: emacs problems
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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Robert Kosmalski wrote:

> im having problems running emacs, ie when i run emacs.exe it immediately
> returns back to the prompt displaying for a _VERY_ short time `end of
> file during parsing' message on top of the screen just before it
> restores the original dos screen (i dont know if there is any more text
> displayed after  that message since i can barely see first few chars of
> that message under  right retrace conditions)

Does this also happen if you invoke Emacs like so:

		emacs -q

If not, then you have some error in your init file (called `_emacs')
and you will need to debug it.

If the above doesn't help, run Emacs like this:

		redir -o emacs.log -eo emacs -q

then look into emacs.log file for the messages that Emacs flashes at
you, and try to figure out what's wrong.  If you can't figure it out,
post here the contents of emacs.log.

> i also ran:  config msdos
>        and:  make install  which gave me:

This is only needed if you want to rebuild Emacs from sources.  You
should be able to run the binary from em1934b.zip without rebuilding
it, so the problems below aren't necessarily connected with the
those which prevent emacs.exe from running.

>  *** no rule to make target `test-distrib', needed by `test-distrib.c ..

This rule should be in the file lib-src/makefile, which is in
em1934s1.zip.  Here's the relevant fragment:

test-distrib: ${srcdir}/test-distrib.c
	$(CC) ${ALL_CFLAGS} -o test-distrib ${srcdir}/test-distrib.c
	test-distrib ${srcdir}/testfile

If you don't have that makefile, or if it doesn't include the fragment
above, then your zip files are probably corrupted, or some snafu
happened when you unzipped them (which can also explain why emacs.exe
won't run).

> can emacs run under 8.3 filenames?

Works for me just fine.