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2008-12-19 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* PROBLEMS (MS-DOS): Document the problems on Vista.
2008-12-17 Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
* refcards/orgcard.tex: Version number change.

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** MS-DOS
*** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows NT, "config msdos" fails.
*** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows NT or later, "config msdos" fails.
If the error message is "VDM has been already loaded", this is because
Windows has a program called `redir.exe' that is incompatible with a
@ -3501,13 +3501,19 @@ program by the same name supplied with DJGPP, which is used by
config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to
the front of your PATH environment variable.
*** When Emacs compiled with DJGPP runs on Vista, it runs out of memory.
If Emacs running on Vista displays "!MEM FULL!" in the mode line, you
are hitting the memory allocation bugs in the Vista DPMI server. See
msdos/INSTALL for how to work around these bugs (search for "Vista").
*** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows 95, Make fails for some targets
like make-docfile.
This can happen if long file name support (the setting of environment
variable LFN) when Emacs distribution was unpacked and during
compilation are not the same. See the MSDOG section of INSTALL for
the explanation of how to avoid this problem.
compilation are not the same. See msdos/INSTALL for the explanation
of how to avoid this problem.
*** Emacs compiled with DJGPP complains at startup:
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characters and a numeric tail that Windows 95 normally attaches to it.
You should unzip the files again with a utility that supports long
filenames (such as djtar from DJGPP or InfoZip's UnZip program
compiled with DJGPP v2). The MSDOG section of the file INSTALL
explains this issue in more detail.
compiled with DJGPP v2). The file msdos/INSTALL explains this issue
in more detail.
Another possible reason for such failures is that Emacs compiled for
MSDOS is used on Windows NT, where long file names are not supported