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From: sam@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Mr. Sam Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: The Old Shell Game
Message-ID: <1285@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 14:04:49 EST
Article-I.D.: ncsuvx.1285
Posted: Wed Dec  2 14:04:49 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 16:24:51 EST
References: <1017@sjuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: sam@ncsuvx.UUCP (Samuel P. F. Moore)
Organization: NCSU Computing Center, Raleigh, NC
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In article <1017@sjuvax.UUCP> tmoody@sjuvax.UUCP (T. Moody) writes:

>Now, more questions...
>
>(1) I have compiled uEmacs3.9 using Microsoft C 4.0, with the /AL
>switch, for the large memory model.  This done, the linker choked on
>DISPLAY.OBJ, complaining about an "invalid object module".  So, for the
>hell of it, I recompiled *just* DISPLAY.C using the /AH setting for the
>huge memory model.  Oddly, this worked (remember, I don't know what I'm
>doing); the object files linked up and I got an .EXE file.  And it loads
>and runs just fine.  Except... if I attempt to use the "emacs.rc" file,
>and its associated .cmd files, I get a "stack overflow 2000" message,
>and no loading.  Does this mean that I should recompile everything with
>the huge memory model?
>

Todd, I compiled MSC 4.0 large model without problems. You may try
expanding the stack with exemod.

>(2) When I run uEmacs3.9 (w/o the .rc file, of course) under MS-DOS (I
>am using a Zenith zfl-181, with 640K RAM), the shell commands (^X! and
>^X@) don't work.  The one that I am most interested in at this point is
>^X!.  When I try it, I simply get the [end] signal at the bottom of the
>screen.  I note that the shell commands work fine under BSD 4.3.  Does
>anyone else have this problem, and is it likely to be related to
>question (1)?
>

I have the same problem under MSDOS, so I don't think the two are related.

I also have a question. Does ME 3.9e expand tabs to a user definable size?
And if so, can it be set in the startup script file?

Sam Moore 
NCSU Computing Center - Raleigh, NC
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