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 authors of XEmacs, then took over and Ben did a massive update
 reorganizing the whole thing.  At which point Anthony took back over,
 but then had to give it up again.  Some of the other contributors to
 this FAQ are listed later in this document.
-This version was converted to hypertext format, and edited by Steven
+The previous version was converted to hypertext format, and edited by
-L. Baur <steve@@altair.xemacs.org>.  It was converted back to texinfo by
+Steven L. Baur <steve@@altair.xemacs.org>.  It was converted back to
-Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@@srce.hr>.
+texinfo by Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@@srce.hr>.
+This version was edited and updated by Andreas Kaempf
+<andreas@@sccon.com>.
 @menu
 Introduction:
 * Q1.0.1::      What is XEmacs?
 * Q1.0.2::      What is the current version of XEmacs?
 track changes to GNU Emacs while also working to add new features.
 @node Q1.0.2, Q1.0.3, Q1.0.1, Introduction
 @section What is the current version of XEmacs?
-The current version is 19.15, released in January, 1997.
+The current version is 19.15, released in March, 1997.
 It has been decided that XEmacs 19.15 will be the final release of v19.
-XEmacs 19.15 is scheduled for release in mid January.  After a brief
+XEmacs 19.15 is scheduled for release in late March.  After a brief
-period of further testing, XEmacs v20 will be released shortly after
+period of further testing, XEmacs v20.1 will be released shortly after
 that.
 @node Q1.0.3, Q1.0.4, Q1.0.2, Introduction
 @section Where can I find it?
 @node Q1.0.10, Q1.0.11, Q1.0.9, Introduction
 @section Is there a port of XEmacs to Microsoft ('95 or NT)?
 The closest is @dfn{Win-Emacs}, which is based on Lucid Emacs 19.6.
-Available from <URL:http://www.pearlsoft.com/>.  Someone at Microsoft
+Available from <URL:http://www.pearlsoft.com/>.
-expressed some interest in working on a port of 19.14 to NT, but never
-went any farther.
+There are some people actively working on a NT port of v20.1: David
+Hobley started the port.  Marc Paquette
+@example
+<marcpa@@cam.org>
+@end example
+has also became part of this effort.
+Email the beta list
+@example
+<xemacs-beta@@xemacs.org>
+@end example
+if you are interested in helping.
 There's a port of GNU Emacs (not XEmacs) at
 @example
 <URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html>.
 @end example
 purpose are defined as the 5th of the month through the 5th of the
 month.  Preexisting questions that have been changed are marked as such.
 Brand new questions are tagged.
 All submissions are welcome.  E-mail submissions to
-<steve@@altair.xemacs.org>.
+<andreas@@sccon.com>.
 Please make sure that @samp{XEmacs FAQ} appears on the Subject: line.
 If you think you have a better way of answering a question, or think a
 question should be included, I'd like to hear about it.  Questions and
 answers included into the FAQ will be edited for spelling and grammar,
 The following people contributed valuable suggestions to building this
 version of the FAQ (listed in alphabetical order):
 @itemize @bullet
-@item Per Abrahamsen <abraham@@dina.kvl.dk>
+@item Steven L Baur <steve@@miranova.com>
-@item Vladimir Alexiev <vladimir@@cs.ualberta.ca>
+@item Darrell Kindred <dkindred@@cmu.edu>
-@item Martin Buchholz <Martin.Buchholz@@sun.com>
+@item David Moore <dmoore@@ucsd.edu>
-@item Brian Denheyer <briand@@iccom.com>
+@item Justin Sheehy <dworkin@@ccs.neu.edu>
-@item Markus Gutschke <gutschk@@ESCHER.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
-@item David Kastrup <dak@@fsnif.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
-@item Natalie Kershaw <nataliek@@rd.scitec.com.au>
-@item John Turner <turner@@lanl.gov>
-@item David Vanderschel <DvdS@@eden.com>
 @end itemize
 @node Q1.2.3, Q1.3.1, Q1.2.2, Introduction
 @section Who contributed to the FAQ in the past?
 @quotation
 There is a cyrillic mode in the file @file{mysetup.zip} in
 <URL:ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/emacs/>.  This is a
 modification to Valery Alexeev's <ava@@math.jhu.ed> @file{russian.el}
 which can be obtained from
 <URL:ftp://tut.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/packages/russian.el.Z>.
 @end quotation
 Dima Barsky <d.barsky@@ee.surrey.ac.uk> writes:
 * Q2.1.17::     @samp{Marker does not point anywhere}.
 * Q2.1.18::     19.14 hangs on HP/UX 10.10.
 * Q2.1.19::     XEmacs does not follow the local timezone.
 * Q2.1.20::     @samp{Symbol's function definition is void: hkey-help-show.}
 * Q2.1.21::     Every so often the XEmacs frame freezes.
+* Q2.1.22::     XEmacs seems to take a really long time to do some things.
 @end menu
 @node Q2.0.1, Q2.0.2, Installation, Installation
 @section Running XEmacs without installing
 @file{xemacs} because @file{xemacs} is a link to @file{xemacs-19.14};
 the Perl @samp{-i} option will cause unwanted side-effects if applied to
 a symbolic link.
 @end quotation
+Steve L. Baur <steve@@miranova.com> writes:
+@quotation
+If you build against a recent libc-5.4 (late enough to have caused
+problems earlier in the beta cycle) and then run with an earlier version
+of libc, you get a
+@example
+$ xemacs
+xemacs: can't resolve symbol '__malloc_hook'
+zsh: 7942 segmentation fault (core dumped)  xemacs
+@end example
+(Example binary compiled against libc-5.4.23 and run with libc-5.4.16).
+The solution is to upgrade to at least libc-5.4.23.  Sigh.  Drat.
+@end quotation
 @node Q2.0.9, Q2.0.10, Q2.0.8, Installation
 @section Where do I find external libraries?
 All external libraries used by XEmacs can be found at the XEmacs FTP
 site <URL:ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/aux/>.
 (require 'hmouse-drv)
 @end lisp
 where you load hyperbole and the problem should go away.
-@node Q2.1.21,  , Q2.1.20, Installation
+@node Q2.1.21, Q2.1.22, Q2.1.20, Installation
 @section Every so often the XEmacs frame freezes
 This problem has been fixed in 19.15, and was due to a not easily
 reproducible race condition.
+@node Q2.1.22,  , Q2.1.21, Installation
+@section XEmacs seems to take a really long time to do some things
+David Moore <dmoore@@ucsd.edu> writes:
+@quotation
+Two things you can do:
+1) C level:
+When you see it going mad like this, you might want to use gdb from an
+'xterm' to attach to the running process and get a stack trace.  To do
+this just run:
+@example
+gdb /path/to/xemacs/xemacs ####
+@end example
+Where #### is the process id of your xemacs, instead of specifying the
+core.  When gdb attaches, the xemacs will stop [1] and you can type
+`where' in gdb to get a stack trace as usual.  To get things moving
+again, you can just type `quit' in gdb.  It'll tell you the program is
+running and ask if you want to quit anyways.  Say 'y' and it'll quit and
+have your emacs continue from where it was at.
+2) Lisp level:
+Turn on debug-on-quit early on.  When you think things are going slow
+hit C-g and it may pop you in the debugger so you can see what routine
+is running.  Press `c' to get going again.
+debug-on-quit doesn't work if something's turned on inhibit-quit or in
+some other strange cases.
+@end quotation
 @node Customization, Subsystems, Installation, Top
 @chapter Customization and Options
 This is part 3 of the XEmacs Frequently Asked Questions list.  This

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