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From: MBParker@share.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Has anyone got emacs GNUS running on the NeXT?  What did you do?
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.094014.15441@share.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 91 09:40:14 GMT
Reply-To: mbparker@mit.edu
Organization: MIT
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Has anyone got emacs GNUS running on the NeXT?  What did you do?  I'm stuck.

I'm trying to install the powerful emacs newsreader gnus (version 3.13) on a
NeXT running Release 2.1, which comes with GNU Emacs 18.55.121 preinstalled.
But when I invoke gnus (M-x gnus) within emacs, gnus starts up, checks for
~/.newsrc (which, say, doesn't exist), appears to be reading and possibly
/usr/lib/news/active; but the active file is over roughly 423 lines/groups
(mine is 1231 lines), gnus will never finish reading it and will fatally ``IOT
trap''s during one of its ``Garbage collecting'' cycles.

Marc Horowitz <marc@mit.edu> said emacs-18.55 had garbage collection bugs and
suggested I try using a more recent version (Why hadn't NeXT included the most
recent version of Emacs in their recent 2.1 Release?!!); so I laboriously
obtained, built, and installed the most recent version of emacs, version
18.57, but the problem remained unscathed.

I don't know what code's producing the IOT signal --the emacs code doesn't IOT
signal; nor do I know what the signal's supposed to mean (out of memory?).  So
I'm stuck.  So if any of you nice folk have a guess at what might be wrong, or
better, if you've been able to get GNUS running on the NeXT, please reply to
mbparker@mit.edu.  Thanks, -Mike Parker