Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf!gopnbg!tmpmbx!utower!fischer From: fischer@utower.gopas.sub.org (Axel Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: gnu emacs, epoch on iAPX 386 Message-ID: Date: 15 Jul 90 11:35:10 GMT References: <225350@<1990Jul8> <70400011@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: fischer@utower.gopas.sub.org Organization: utower-net (located somewhere at the end of the universe) Lines: 16 carroll@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >Sad to say, but Epoch won't run except under X-Windows, which you don't have >installed, so I suspect that Epoch (at least) is crashing because it is >doing some system call for X-windows, and failing. It's also possible that the >Emacs binary you have was compiled with X-windows support, and is failing >for the same reason. No, emacs detects if you have set the DISPLAY envvar. If yes it tries to start with connecting to the server, else it starts on any character tty just like the emacs without X support. -Axel -- fischer@utower.gopas.sub.org / fischer@db0tui6.BITNET / fischer@tmpmbx.UUCP Class of '93 That is not dead, which can eternal lie Yet with strange aeons, even death may die.