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| author | Eli Zaretskii | 2008-12-19 11:13:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii | 2008-12-19 11:13:11 +0000 |
| commit | bde76d3e83766bccc604bc7b23d3c8a698e44621 (patch) | |
| tree | eaaa20ee8ba27ce87a3aee79f434fd2b1112c024 | |
| parent | b5a099032820a70c6e9e7f28c477c7e7c8766416 (diff) | |
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(MS-DOS): Document the problems on Vista.
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/PROBLEMS | 16 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index 50398c8296a..8c2fd18de31 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog | |||
| @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ | |||
| 1 | 2008-12-19 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | ||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | * PROBLEMS (MS-DOS): Document the problems on Vista. | ||
| 4 | |||
| 1 | 2008-12-17 Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> | 5 | 2008-12-17 Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> |
| 2 | 6 | ||
| 3 | * refcards/orgcard.tex: Version number change. | 7 | * refcards/orgcard.tex: Version number change. |
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 35f1911b3c7..fdfe7645fcb 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS | |||
| @@ -3493,7 +3493,7 @@ PATH. | |||
| 3493 | 3493 | ||
| 3494 | ** MS-DOS | 3494 | ** MS-DOS |
| 3495 | 3495 | ||
| 3496 | *** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows NT, "config msdos" fails. | 3496 | *** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows NT or later, "config msdos" fails. |
| 3497 | 3497 | ||
| 3498 | If the error message is "VDM has been already loaded", this is because | 3498 | If the error message is "VDM has been already loaded", this is because |
| 3499 | Windows has a program called `redir.exe' that is incompatible with a | 3499 | Windows has a program called `redir.exe' that is incompatible with a |
| @@ -3501,13 +3501,19 @@ program by the same name supplied with DJGPP, which is used by | |||
| 3501 | config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to | 3501 | config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to |
| 3502 | the front of your PATH environment variable. | 3502 | the front of your PATH environment variable. |
| 3503 | 3503 | ||
| 3504 | *** When Emacs compiled with DJGPP runs on Vista, it runs out of memory. | ||
| 3505 | |||
| 3506 | If Emacs running on Vista displays "!MEM FULL!" in the mode line, you | ||
| 3507 | are hitting the memory allocation bugs in the Vista DPMI server. See | ||
| 3508 | msdos/INSTALL for how to work around these bugs (search for "Vista"). | ||
| 3509 | |||
| 3504 | *** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows 95, Make fails for some targets | 3510 | *** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows 95, Make fails for some targets |
| 3505 | like make-docfile. | 3511 | like make-docfile. |
| 3506 | 3512 | ||
| 3507 | This can happen if long file name support (the setting of environment | 3513 | This can happen if long file name support (the setting of environment |
| 3508 | variable LFN) when Emacs distribution was unpacked and during | 3514 | variable LFN) when Emacs distribution was unpacked and during |
| 3509 | compilation are not the same. See the MSDOG section of INSTALL for | 3515 | compilation are not the same. See msdos/INSTALL for the explanation |
| 3510 | the explanation of how to avoid this problem. | 3516 | of how to avoid this problem. |
| 3511 | 3517 | ||
| 3512 | *** Emacs compiled with DJGPP complains at startup: | 3518 | *** Emacs compiled with DJGPP complains at startup: |
| 3513 | 3519 | ||
| @@ -3580,8 +3586,8 @@ support, thus causing long filenames to be truncated to the first 6 | |||
| 3580 | characters and a numeric tail that Windows 95 normally attaches to it. | 3586 | characters and a numeric tail that Windows 95 normally attaches to it. |
| 3581 | You should unzip the files again with a utility that supports long | 3587 | You should unzip the files again with a utility that supports long |
| 3582 | filenames (such as djtar from DJGPP or InfoZip's UnZip program | 3588 | filenames (such as djtar from DJGPP or InfoZip's UnZip program |
| 3583 | compiled with DJGPP v2). The MSDOG section of the file INSTALL | 3589 | compiled with DJGPP v2). The file msdos/INSTALL explains this issue |
| 3584 | explains this issue in more detail. | 3590 | in more detail. |
| 3585 | 3591 | ||
| 3586 | Another possible reason for such failures is that Emacs compiled for | 3592 | Another possible reason for such failures is that Emacs compiled for |
| 3587 | MSDOS is used on Windows NT, where long file names are not supported | 3593 | MSDOS is used on Windows NT, where long file names are not supported |