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Document that rmail-output-to-rmail-file now writes in emacs-mule.
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1 This directory tree holds version 21.0.106 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
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2 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
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4 You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report
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5 them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since
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6 they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or
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7 in code we don't use often. See the file BUGS for more information on
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8 how to report bugs.
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10 See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other
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11 user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs.
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13 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to bring up GNU Emacs on
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14 various systems, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this
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15 directory.
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17 The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that
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18 occur in building, installing and running Emacs.
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20 Reports of bugs in Emacs should be sent to the mailing list
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21 bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs
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22 manual for more information on how to report bugs. (The file `BUGS'
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23 in this directory explains how you can find and read that section
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24 using the Info files that come with Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS'
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25 for more information on mailing lists relating to GNU packages.
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27 The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital
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28 letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU
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29 Emacs.
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31 The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate Emacs to the
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32 oddities of your processor and operating system. It creates the file
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33 `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which automates the
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34 process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more
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35 detailed information.
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37 The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to
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38 construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration
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39 requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical
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40 reasons, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
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41 configuration code and autoconf macros. If you want to rebuild
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42 `configure' from `configure.in', you will need to install a recent
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43 version of autoconf and GNU m4.
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45 The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
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46 `Makefile'.
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48 The file `make-dist' is a shell script to build a distribution tar
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49 file from the current Emacs tree, containing only those files
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50 appropriate for distribution. If you make extensive changes to Emacs,
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51 this script will help you distribute your version to others.
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53 There are several subdirectories:
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55 `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and its
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56 primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing functions).
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57 `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else).
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58 `lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by
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59 or with Emacs, like movemail and etags.
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60 `etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files
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61 Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead quote
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62 database. The contents of the `lisp', `info' and `man'
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63 subdirectories are architecture-independent too.
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65 `info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs.
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66 `man' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual. If you modify the
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67 manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce
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68 an updated manual. `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo
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69 package; you need version 4.0 or later of Texinfo.
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71 Note that the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual sources are distributed
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72 separately. (They are twice as large as the Emacs Manual in the man
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73 subdirectory.)
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75 `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG.
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76 `vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS.
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77 `nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain
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78 to running Emacs on Windows NT.
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79 `mac' holds instructions, sources, and other useful files for building
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80 and running Emacs on the Mac.
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82 Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools
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84 platform-specific README files and installation instructions should
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85 list the required tools.