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| author | Richard M. Stallman | 1997-08-14 22:40:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman | 1997-08-14 22:40:14 +0000 |
| commit | b54a8d43a2577c083348504eefb72082ac5f24da (patch) | |
| tree | 369efa21a6503a674aab2daf84b69e66c7e2f829 | |
| parent | 96db060f6390c23b69dcacc74e1ec0092bb24e15 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-b54a8d43a2577c083348504eefb72082ac5f24da.tar.gz emacs-b54a8d43a2577c083348504eefb72082ac5f24da.zip | |
MSDOS updates.
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
| @@ -600,7 +600,12 @@ To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command: | |||
| 600 | djtar -x emacs.tgz | 600 | djtar -x emacs.tgz |
| 601 | 601 | ||
| 602 | (This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on | 602 | (This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on |
| 603 | your system.) | 603 | your system.) There are a few files in the archive whose names |
| 604 | collide with other files under the 8.3 DOS naming. On native MSDOS, | ||
| 605 | or if you have set LFN=n on Windows 95, djtar will ask you to supply | ||
| 606 | alternate names for these files; you can just press `Enter' when this | ||
| 607 | happens (which makes djtar skip these files) because they aren't | ||
| 608 | required for MS-DOS. | ||
| 604 | 609 | ||
| 605 | When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be | 610 | When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be |
| 606 | created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install | 611 | created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install |
| @@ -623,9 +628,8 @@ if you run Emacs under MS Windows. | |||
| 623 | Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in | 628 | Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in |
| 624 | ../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the | 629 | ../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the |
| 625 | Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the | 630 | Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the |
| 626 | environment variables EMACSDATA (for the location of `etc' directory), | 631 | environment variable HOME; if you do that, the directories lisp, etc |
| 627 | EMACSLOADPATH (for the location of `lisp' directory) and INFOPATH (for | 632 | and info are accessed as subdirectories of the HOME directory. |
| 628 | the location of the `info' directory). | ||
| 629 | 633 | ||
| 630 | MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such | 634 | MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such |
| 631 | as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not | 635 | as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not |