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From: Markku.Savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela)
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Subject: Re: emacs 18.55 on Apollo SR10.2.p
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Date: 16 Aug 90 17:30:33 GMT
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In-reply-to: schmid@asterix.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de's message of 16 Aug 90 05:20:24 GMT


  I have similar experience on sr10.2 (dn3500)...

>Of course I ran into problems when trying to compile it:
>   1. There seem to be several lines duplicated at the end of the file

  Yep.

>   2. Next, when temacs is trying to dump, it stops when loading 
>      cl-indent.el because it found a ')' which it didn't like.

  Something similar happened with .54 version too. There was something
about increasing the PURESIZE in config.h, but I just deleted a unneeded
(by me) functions from site-load.el. Problem disappeared, maybe some
files were just corrupted, who knows. :)

>   3. The worst. When I installed emacs it seemed to work ok, especially
>      with X, but when I tried to use it in an Apollo-Pad, all those

   Hmm, this one I didn't run into. The reason I didn't start to use
18.55 was that it *didn't* start from telnet session!!! But, now I
found out why:

   My environment has "DISPLAY" defined and previously I was running
Apollo's X and the server was always running, I suppose it hung up
somehow. Now I'm using MIT version and hadn't X server running when
telnetting in. Got nice error about not being able to talk with X
server. Aha! Just undefined DISPLAY and it seems to start. Maybe I
take 18.55 into use after all...
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