I got the same error that Suraj was getting while installing emacs-21.3a-fullbin. So I followed his instructions and installed 21.3fullbin and then unzipped 21.3a over it and emacs works fine without any problem.
The version numbers are like this >From ftp.gnu.org: GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) of 2004-02-21 on NYAUMO >From http://www.crasseux.com/emacs: GNU Emacs 21.3.50.8 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) of 2003-12-28 on SERVER Cheers, JK -----Original Message----- From: Suraj Acharya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:41 AM 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
