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(User-Chosen Coding Systems) <select-safe-coding-system>: Document the new argument accept-default-p and the variable select-safe-coding-system-accept-default-p. Tell what happens if buffer-file-coding-system is undecided. (Default Coding Systems): Document auto-coding-regexp-alist.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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1 Emacs for Windows NT and Windows 95/98/2000
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3 Version 21.0.104 pretest
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5 July 16, 2001
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7 This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of GNU
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8 Emacs for Windows NT and Windows 95/98/2000. This distribution
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9 supplements the standard dumped precompiled distribution of Emacs, which
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10 you can download from:
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12 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/
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14 If you do not have the "bin" distribution, then you will need to
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15 download it before you can use this undumped version. Also note that
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16 you should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs
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17 with more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs
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18 after patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded.
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20 The dumping process consists of running a bare Emacs, loading up a
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21 number of general elisp files, and then creating a new Emacs executable
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22 preinitialized and ready to run. In the precompiled distributions,
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23 Emacs has already been dumped with the standard configuration.
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25 To dump Emacs, unpack this distribution into the directory created by
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26 unpacking the corresponding standard precompiled distribution. To
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27 verify that you unpacked in the proper place, check to make sure that
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28 you now have a temacs.exe file in the bin directory.
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30 Once you have unpacked this distribution, cd into the bin directory and
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31 run dump.bat. This will produce a new bin\emacs.exe executable for you
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32 to use (the original one is renamed to emacs.exe.orig; this is not
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33 overwritten if you run dump more than once).
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35 For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file that
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36 came with the standard dumped precompiled distribution. If you have
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37 problems with Emacs, including problems with dumping, send email to
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38 "ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu".
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40 Enjoy.
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42 Andrew Innes
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43 (andrewi@gnu.org)