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From: smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM (Sherman Mui)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: emacs: missing library!?
Date: 4 Jul 1994 23:31:30 GMT
Organization: Pacific Bell Knowledge Network
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Anthony Monroe (tmonroe@soda.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: Funny...when I tried to install emacs on my machine (even though I'm not the
: biggest fan of it) I got the same message every time I tried to run it.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Why not!? :-)
: Well, I can't remember it exactly, but it amounted to "Segmentation fault --
: core dumped." And it would just put me back at the prompt. And this is
Doesn't that mean it tried to get some memory already taken?
: WITH XFree86 already installed. Possible that XFree86 took up so much
: memory that emacs couldn't run? (In other words, is it possible to run
: emacs and XFree86 with 8MB of RAM, or do I need to go to 16?)
Wouldn't it page to disk then? Or at give you some out of memory error
and blow up?
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