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From: AUGUSTO%ICE.GE.CNR.IT@ICNUCEVM.CNUCE.CNR.IT (Augusto Chioccariello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: problem installing apollo-emacs 18.57 (solved)
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Date: 15 May 91 16:30:00 GMT
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Thanks to the people who replied to my request for
help on installing emacs 18.57 on Apollo.

The Leonard Zubkoff code works flawlessly on Apollo, the problem
has to do with something in upgrading my nodes from Domain/OS
sr 10.2 and cc 6.7 to SR 10.3 and cc 6.8.
I did recompile the emacs sources on a machine that we have
just received, an Apollo 400, where I installed SR 10.3 and cc 6.8,
with no problem.  BTW also works on the other nodes.
The only difference, comparing the transcript for build-apollo-emacs
is:

% diff 400-transcript dn400-transcript
110,119d109
<
<  (1220)   signal (32, window_change_signal);
<
< ******** Line 1220 of "dispnew.c": [Warning #080]
<           Illegal pointer combination with
<          "window_change_signal": incompatible types.
... several others [Warning #080] removed

I'm trying to figure out what I did wrong in upgrading the old node,
suggestions are welcome.

Augusto Chioccariello

PS

>>Douglas Keenan Rand <rand@hwcae.cfsat.honeywell.com>

>>How does Emacs exit? Does it just return the prompt back with out
>>doing anything? Does it core dump? How about putting the pad into
>>raw-mode? Do any messages appear at the bottom of the screen?

On the DN4000, the node upgraded from 10.2 to 10.3, the compiled
emacs will just return the prompt back without doing anything.

PSS

I'm not a computer scientist nor a system manager, actually I do
research on use of computers in education, my apologies for the
clumsy error report.  Final apology for my use (misuse) of the
english language.  I must say that I'm learning a lot on both
subjects from this group; which is of more help to me than the
Italian HP-Apollo support center.