You were right. It blows up. However a little investigation shows the only thing missing is fns-21.3.1.el. You can get it from the old 21.3 or as the others did by unpacking the new over the old.
Latchezar > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Hyatt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:53 PM > To: Latchezar Dimitrov > Cc: Suraj Acharya; Jason Rumney; Mats Sundqvist; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: fatal error > > > > Sorry, you'd have to eval this as well before the last thing I sent: > > (defun w32-browser (doc) > "Browse to a particular file/URL using default web browser" > (w32-shell-execute 1 doc)) > > > "Latchezar Dimitrov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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 > >> > >> > >
