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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs
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Date: 12 Dec 88 15:33:04 GMT
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brian@cbw1.UUCP (Brian Cuthie) writes:
   >Partway
   >through the execution of this command I get an error concerning
   >the system's inability to add the symbol Lisp_Subr to the symbol
   >table

   Check the amount of disk space you have in the root partition.

If this is in fact the problem, then try setting the environment
variable TMPDIR to some directory on a filesystem with lots of excess
space.  All the SysV standard utilities will write their temp files
there rather than in /tmp.

--Karl