From:	pjbk AT cee DOT hw DOT ac DOT uk (Peter JB King)
Subject:	Re: demacs+djgpp
To:	turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp (Stephen Turnbull)
Date:	Tue, 1 Nov 1994 09:25:31 +0000 (GMT)
Cc:	milgram AT eng DOT umd DOT edu, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> 
> The GO32 provided with DEmacs is heavily hacked and very old (v 1.07 +
> hacks, I believe).  You can (a) read the docs and learn how to use the
> "-keep=" parameter, or (b) create a batch file which does "GO32
> demacs" (you probably should be very careful about creating an exact
> path to the executable so you don't confuse it with the DEMACS.EXE
> which is actually a renamed GO32).  I don't think that stubedit will
> work on DEmacs, it's too old.  (c) You can get OEmacs or Emacs 19.xx.
>     The problem is that the old GO32 does not swap itself out, or
> something, and there isn't enough *DOS* (< 1MB) memory to run the
> extender.  Using the new GO32 or the -keep parameter should fix this.
>     --Steve
> 
I use oemacs, and it works as expected with compilation, even in 4M,
although there is still the problem that oemacs uses a hacked version of
go32 version 1.10, and as far as I know it is incompatible with go32
version 1.12.

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