From: Erik Troan (ewt@sunSITE.unc.edu)
Date: 06/17/93


From: ewt@sunSITE.unc.edu (Erik Troan)
Subject: Re: Am I the only one that Emacs Crashes for?
Date: 17 Jun 1993 13:17:15 GMT

lana@vening.mit.edu (Svetlana Panasyuk) writes:

>Peter C Norton (spacey@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu) wrote:
>: I have tried installing SLS 1.02 on a 486/33 on a 60 meg partition. For
>: some reason, the emacs binaries that came with the distribution cannot
>: load. I have no idea what could be causing this, and since Emacs is my
>: primary editor, I would appreciate suggestions.

>The same for me on 386SX/25. I tried binaries from tsx-11 as well as from
>sunsite. Any help will be highly appreciated.

>Svetlana.

The emacs distributed w/ SLS needs the X libraries available to run
correctly (even if you don't want to run it under X). I don't know why
it core dumps instead of giving a message, but installing the X DLLs
will fix the problem. Poke around SLS's X series to find them.

Erik

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