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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs hands under BSD 4.3 (help)
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Date: 28 Mar 89 12:36:33 GMT
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>From article <10897@lanl.gov>, by dph@lanl.gov (David Huelsbeck):
> I just installed GNU Emacs 18.53 on a VAX 11/785 running BSD 4.3,
> and I'm seeing a problem that I have no idea how to track down.
> Emacs comes up just fine when it's called from the command line
> but it hangs when invoked from another program.  As an example using
> the ~e command within mail will cause emacs to stop. (STAT is T when
> a ps is done.)  
> 

I got the same thing installing 18.53 on a Sun running OS3.5 and one
running 3.4. (Though I got status P when I did a ps).

I tried exec within a shell script, and that worked, but scips the
rest of the shell script. And, as expected, if I call the first
shell script from another shell script, it also hung.

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