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From: jdh@aragorn.UUCP (jim harriger)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: GNU emacs on UNIX V.3/80386, minor problems
Message-ID: <201@aragorn.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 88 16:03:51 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation, Integrated Systems Operation, Hillboro, OR
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Keywords: GNU emacs 80386



	if there is anybody out there running GNU emacs on System V.3/386,
i could use your help.

	i brought up GNU emacs 18.50 on UNIX(r) V.3/386 about two weeks ago.
since then, i have noticed two problems which i'm hoping someone out there
can help me solve.  If it helps, i was running 18.42 before this and didn't
have either one of these problems.

	1) frequently, when doing filename completion in the minibuf, emacs
		will freak-out on me.  it repeatedly prints "Modification-flag cleared"
		in the minibuf, beeping all the time, finally gives that up, and
		completes my filename with the string 'BOo .  It then refuses
		to read anything more from the keyboard, and is in a loop in
		user code (meaning it is not sleeping and it is not looping in
		the kernel somewhere.)  i can kill it with a kill from another
		terminal, and then the tty line is left in raw mode.

	2) if i do a lot of filename completion operations that require emacs to
		open a directory and print me a list of the possible filenames,
		after some time, emacs runs out of file descriptors, and cannot
		open any more files.  looking at the user structure with crash shows
		6-8 open files.  


	anybody have any ideas?  anybody else see this?  maybe it is related to
my configuration or something.

	relevant data:  UNIX V, Release 3.0, running on an 80386-based Multibus I
box.  has 8Mb RAM, 500Mb disk space, GNU emacs 18.50

	btw, i'd like to thank whoever it was out there who finally made unexec
work on UNIX V.3/386.  thanks, whoever you are!
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