phr@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU.UUCP (05/01/87)
Due to a last minute slip-up in putting the distribution together, the magtape copies of Emacs 18.44 have a bad bug in their default configuration file. The parameter PURESIZE is set to a value too small to fit the latest versions of all the preloaded Lisp files. This means that if you try to install Emacs on a VAX (or possibly some other kinds of computers) and you have not configured Emacs to include the X Window system code, `temacs' will get a "Pure Lisp Storage Exhausted" error and then fail. In order to fix the problem, please change the line #define PURESIZE 115500 in the file dist/src/config.h-dist to #define PURESIZE 115800 and everything should work per the directions in the INSTALL file. If you are using a Sun computer or you are running X windows, Emacs should come up ok even if you don't make this change. However, we urge you to make the change in your copy of Emacs anyway, so that if someone else gets a copy of Emacs from you, they won't be bitten by this bug. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks to John Lawitzke for being first to report this bug.