Subject: bug#8562: Emacs 23.1 and later don't work in windows 98

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:10:58 +0200

> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:46:01 +0200
> From: oslsachem <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> > Please give this a try, both with and without UNICOWS.DLL available,
> > and see if the results are good.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the patched Emacs works perfectly when using
> emacs.exe (and runemacs.exe with unicows.dll).

Thanks, I installed the changes in the bzr repository.  The next
pretest, due in a day or two, should work on Windows 9X.

> However, when using runemacs.exe without unicows.dll, the program
> doesn't show the error dialog window or the application window and the
> process stays hidden in the background instead of exiting gracefully.

See my other mail about this.