bmiller@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM (Bruce J. Miller) (06/21/87)
This probably doesn't exactly belong here, but vms-gnu-emacs bounced my
mail, so...
I've been working on installing GNU 18.36 on VMS 4.4 using VMS C
2.0. We seem to have everything running ok except for three minor things
(well, sort of minor things). First, VMSPROC.EL doesn't seem to be working
properly, when we type M-$, we get the command buffer ok, and it acts like
it's sending out the commands typed, but they never make it through. I've
tried looking at some 18.41 sources to see if there are any diffs there, or
in VMSFNS.C, but that doesn't seem to be it. Anyone know anything on this?
2) Every so often, always during a garbage collect, usually during a
byte-compile (but not always) emacs crashed with a "Fatal Error (4)" and
all we can really tell is that it died somewhere in ALLOC.
3) (This is properly our stupid system at fault) We run all our terminals
(and dialups) through a DECNET server, specifically DECserver 100 v1.2 -
LAT v5.1. We have all the flow control problems beat, and everything works
fine on a dedicated line, but from dialup, emacs starts up, clears the
screen, loads the init file as appropriate displays whatever messages are
appropriate in the minibuffer, and then when it should come up with a
status line, it just stares at you and the only thing to do is drop the
line. We've frobbed our terminal parameters no end and have had no luck.
This happens even without an init file, in which case the startup message
does NOT appear. Ideas anyone?
Any help would be greatly appreciated (we've been fighting this war for the
better part of a month). Please respond to me directly, so as not to
clutter the net (or was that "...so the whole world doesn't know how dumb
I've been."
--Herb Miller
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BITNET: 208543614@VUVAXCOMmende@aramis.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende) (06/22/87)
This bug is one of the reasons that there is version 18.47 of gnu.
The most current version I have is 18.46 and the subprocess stuff
works fine under VMS. Of course none of the utilities that use unix
commands dired and spell to name a few work, but it is a much more
stable program.
Bob Mende
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