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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: Has anyone got emacs GNUS running on the NeXT?  What did you do?
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Date: 28 Jun 91 10:50:25 GMT
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In article <1991Jun21.094014.15441@share.UUCP> MBParker@share.UUCP writes:

   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.

I use GNUS 3.13 on the 040 NeXT Cube(2.0) from time to time (can't
post at that nntp server, though) w/o any problems.  However, I've had
problems with Emacs on the new NeXTstations, and I have no idea why.
At times Emacs seems to take forever loading files and saving them.
There isn't any difference b/w the 040 Cube and the NeXTstation slab
is there?  Has anyone else experience any problems with the Slab?  It
could be our network configuration.

-Mike