Hi, I'm not sure what you were talking about. I unpacked (installed?) 21.3a into a new dir and run it w/o any problems.
Latchezar > -----Original Message----- > From: Suraj Acharya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:41 PM > To: Jason Rumney > Cc: Mats Sundqvist; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: fatal error > > > Jason Rumney wrote: > > > Mats Sundqvist wrote: > > > >> I get the following "emacs abort dialog" when I try to run > Emacs with > >> jde: > > > > > " a fatal error has occurred select abort to ..." > > > >> emacs-21.3 (the emacs for windows) > > > > > > If this was downloaded from ftp.gnu.org, then it is broken. > Go back to > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows, and download > > emacs-21.3a-barebin.tar.gz. Unpack that over the top of > your existing > > installation and you should be OK. Make sure you get 21.3a, not the > > broken 21.3 that is still there because it needs one of the GNU > > sysadmins to delete it. > > > > > > > For those of you who want to play with these new emacs > binaries here's > what I found: > > Trying to do a clean install with emacs-21.3a-fullbin.tar.gz > does not > work (for me at least) - I get a > message about a missing emacs/bin/fns-21.3.1.el file. However if you > follow Jason's instructions exactly, > and rid of the 21.3a directory, then unpack emacs-21.3-fullbin.tar.gz > and then emacs-21.3a-barebin.tar.gz > on top of that *then* emacs starts up without any problems. > > Suraj > >
