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From: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: emacs: missing library!?
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Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 18:42:56 GMT
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jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan Hubbard) writes:
>So the emacs problem is not the result of trying to use `already
>allocated memory' or `trying to use too much memory' (I run emacs + X
>in 8MB all the time, for what it's worth), it's a bogus installation
>of emacs!  To put it more bluntly: When Antony attempted to install
>emacs, he blew it somewhere..

Another problem with the emacs package, one that's been around for at least the
last several releases of it - pkg_add installs only a small fraction of the
distribution.  One can manually unwrap it fine, though.

	Alec