# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 1229685171 0 # Node ID c49d80bdf651f406ffc47f5ba95dd45b7cd935c9 # Parent 61b57eedb60402ede429b6d58e834f196406bb0c (MS-DOS): Document the problems on Vista. diff -r 61b57eedb604 -r c49d80bdf651 etc/PROBLEMS --- a/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Dec 19 11:05:49 2008 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Dec 19 11:12:51 2008 +0000 @@ -3493,7 +3493,7 @@ ** 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 @@ 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: @@ -3580,8 +3586,8 @@ 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