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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!bigbang.astro.indiana.edu!ahabig From: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig) Subject: Re: FreeBSD: emacs: missing library!? Message-ID: <CsJ7zK.Lrs@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: bigbang.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Astrophysics, Bloomington, IN References: <2va3j1$5f0@agate.berkeley.edu> <2va64i$5d9@ohlone.kn.PacBell.COM> <JKH.94Jul5010029@whisker.hubbard.ie> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 18:42:56 GMT Lines: 12 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