Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 11:54:23 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: John Velman <jrvelman AT mail DOT hac DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Emacs and Netscape clash??
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On 23 Apr 1998, John Velman wrote:

> Occasionally, when having both Netscape open, and emacs running in a dos 
> window, I get a crash.  Sometimes when trying to do something in the
> Netscape window, sometimes when trying to do something in emacs.
> Usually, there is a GPF, sometimes in something called winoldapp,
> sometimes the dialog says netscape caused the GPF.  Sometimes, not
> always, the machine just re-boots itself.

WINOLDAPP (WINdows OLD APPlication) is just another name for a DOS
program running in the DOS box.

> Dell Xpi; Dos 6.22; Win 3.11, 32 meg memory 

Do you have both Win32s installed *and* 32-bit File Access enabled on
this system?  If so, please disable one of them and see if that
helps.  I have seen in the past quite a few reports that having these
two makes Emacs crash, but each one of them alone is okay.

> Emacs = Eli's emacs 19.34

Is that the latest binary (emacs.exe dated 14 Dec 1997)?  If not,
please download the latest release and try it.

Also, please make sure you use the emacs.pif file which comes with the
Emacs distribution, to run Emacs.

> Windows virtual memory = 20MB

What does go32-v2 report in the DOS box?

20MB might be too few for both Emacs and Netscape, certainly when they
run together.  Did you try enlarging that?