For all those seeing the gnuclient+display-time on tty or any other crach with crashes in compact_string_chars, please try out this patch.. Index: redisplay.c =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/src/redisplay.c,v retrieving revision 1.55.2.69 diff -u -u -r1.55.2.69 redisplay.c --- redisplay.c 2001/03/09 04:13:25 1.55.2.69 +++ redisplay.c 2001/03/31 23:07:26 ＠＠ -972,6 +972,8 ＠＠ for (pos = c_string; pos < end;) { + Bufbyte *old_pos = pos; + data->ch = charptr_emchar (pos); prop = add_emchar_rune (data); ＠＠ -997,6 +999,9 ＠＠ } INC_CHARPTR (pos); assert (pos <= end); + /* Duplicate code from add_string_to_fstring_db_runes + should be do more?*/ + data->bytepos += pos - old_pos; } return NULL;