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- From: hugh@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: EMACS 18.58/Amiga version 1.26
- Message-ID: <3K7hs*+c2@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:08:35 EST
- References: <43152@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Organization: Phaedra V
- Lines: 34
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- In article <43152@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, Spumoni... writes:
-
- > I have a few questions about the usage of Emacs 1.26 (the
- > implementation of 18.58) on an Amiga 3000 with 6megs of RAM and a 52 meg HD. I
- > can get the basic program to work correctly, i.e. I can load files in, edit
- > them, save em back out, edit preferences, etc. I have a question concerning
- > the usage of the M-x-run... commands. This includes LISP, ProLog, dired, and a
-
- dired, hanoi, etc. mostly work just the same with the Amiga port as
- they do under Unix. Did you read and follow the installation
- instructions? You have ESHELL set to gnuemacs:etc/sh?
-
- > dired ran more or less as advertised. Now, after getting fifo.library and
- > Fifo-Handler (Matt Dillon) I wanted to see if I could use these things on the
-
- Which version of fifo.library? You should have 37.3.
-
- > Amiga version. Unfortunetely, I keep getting the error message
- > "vfork-insufficient memory" or something like that. I know I have enough
- > memory (is 3.5 megs free enough?) so there must be something wrong with my
-
- 3.5 meg is lots. What's the largest contiguous piece? Also read the
- special note about using emacs on a 3000. emacs requires that the high
- bits of all the RAM it uses be the same.
-
- I'd make sure you have the non-beta release, and double check the
- installation for starters. The gnuemacs:temacs should be 316028 bytes.
-
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