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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 10:17:25 EST
From: "Steve Salter (519) 452-4447" <SALTERS AT AM DOT FANSHAWEC DOT ON DOT CA>
Subject: Re: GO32 burns GnuEmacs 19.28 under MS-Windows
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> Help!
> 
> I've been attempting to install Gnu Emacs 19.28 on my Windows box, but it 
> causes random, frequent
> and alarming crashes in itself or just about anything else that happens to 

> 1.      Has anyone else ever had problems like this?

YES (%$%^ Windows) !!

> 2.      Where do I look now?  Is there something else I should change or 
> look at that I haven't thought of?

I changed 2 things:

- Use stubedit to change the amount of stack to 4m (4 megabytes)

- I created a PIF file for emacs and gave it all sorts of memory.

I don't think that the PIF file is necessary, but I am still testing that. 
emacs certainly works fine with the big stack and the PIF file.

> 3.      Is GO32 a good idea under windows?  Shouldn't windows be used as the
> DOS extender and be allowed
>         to take over all DPMI services?

Shouldn't be too hard to persuade Microsoft to include go32 support. :-)

BTW, your system has more memory, etc. than mine, so I don't think that's the
problem.

Hope this helps...

Steve Salter
Programmer, Fanshawe College
London, ON Canada
salters AT admin DOT fanshawec DOT on DOT ca