Re: [h-e-w] blank screen

[Dr Francis J. Wright]

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> 
> Upon returning to NTEmacs after some time operating in other applications,
> I am often finding that the Emacs window is "blank;" i.e., you can't see
> any of the text w/in the borders of the window. The only recourse in this
> event seems to be to kill the app. via the Task Manager (on NT4SP6) -
> although the Task Mgr., FWIW, does show Emacs as "running."
> 
> Any suggestions?...

I think this can happen when Emacs is running a sub-process that hangs. 
I've noticed this on Windows 98.  Killing the sub-process usually works,
although killing processes is a bit unreliably on Windows 9x!

Alternatively, a C-g with Emacs the focus might help.

Francis