Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!zu
From: zu@ethz.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Has uemacs 3.9 solved the file save bug?
Message-ID: <265@bernina.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 87 07:21:02 GMT
References: <3056@pegasus.UUCP>
Reply-To: zu@bernina.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, CS Department, Switzerland
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In article <3056@pegasus.UUCP> avi@pegasus.UUCP (XMPE40000-Avi E. Gross;LZ 3C-314;6241) writes:
>
>I haven't compiled the new micro emacs since I have a MSC compiler, which is
>not fully supported.

This is simply NOT TRUE. I am also working with MSC (version 4.0) and had only
one minor problem when I compiled MicroEmacs 3.9e (the latest version which
was posted on Usenet). This problem relates to the Subshell spawning. But if
you know just a little bit of C, there is no problem to fix it (add a routine
specific to MSC). Some time ago, there was even a posting in comp.sources.bugs
describing all the necessary steps to do that.

>I have been having a very annoying problem with the
>older version, and am wondering if it has been fixed, or if someone has a
>work around. I am used to saving my files regularly with ^X^S, and then
>sometimes quiting with ^X^C. Unfortunately, uemacs will quit before
>completing the writing of the file, leaving me with only a small piece of
>the file. 

I am sure you enable breaking with ^C (either in config.sys or in autoexec.bat)
Turn this off, and all your problems have gone :-)
I know this is not the solution to this problem we all want to have. Perhaps
you can do it with signal(). If not you have to included a function of your own
which intercepts the break vector of MS-DOS.


		Have a nice day,
		      ...urs

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