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From: dcmartin@CS.WISC.EDU ("David C. Martin")
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: emacs hangs when invoke from a subshell
Message-ID: <8911291900.AA13109@cheddar.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 89 19:00:52 GMT
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If you compile emacs w/ the X Window System support, it defaults to attempting
to start up w/ the X server on the local machine (localhost:0.0, I assume).
If you want to start it up under a tty subshell, you have to use the -nw flag
to say ``no window.''

Hope this solves the problem.

dcm
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Your message:

    We are running GNU emacs 18.55 on both SUN SPARC SUNOS 4.0.3 and DEC
    3100 Ultrix workstations.  When emacs is invoked from a subshell on
    these machines, it hangs; PS shows it to be in state "T" (stopped on
    tty output?).  When the same emacs is invoked with the DISPLAY
    environment variable set appropriately, it creates an X window and all
    is well.  I have the feeling I'm missing something obvious here; does
    anyone know why this is happening?

    Thanks,

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