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1 Emacs for Windows NT and Windows 95/98/2000/XP |
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3 This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of GNU |
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4 Emacs for Windows NT and Windows 95/98/2000/XP. This distribution |
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5 supplements the standard dumped precompiled distribution of Emacs, which |
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6 you can download from: |
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8 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/latest/ |
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10 If you do not have the "bin" distribution, then you will need to |
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11 download it before you can use this undumped version. Also note that |
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12 you should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs |
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13 with more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs |
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14 after patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded. |
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16 The dumping process consists of running a bare Emacs, loading up a |
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17 number of general elisp files, and then creating a new Emacs executable |
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18 preinitialized and ready to run. In the precompiled distributions, |
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19 Emacs has already been dumped with the standard configuration. |
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21 To dump Emacs, unpack this distribution into the directory created by |
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22 unpacking the corresponding standard precompiled distribution. To |
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23 verify that you unpacked in the proper place, check to make sure that |
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24 you now have a temacs.exe file in the bin directory. |
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26 Once you have unpacked this distribution, cd into the bin directory and |
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27 run dump.bat. This will produce a new bin\emacs.exe executable for you |
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28 to use (the original one is renamed to emacs.exe.orig; this is not |
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29 overwritten if you run dump more than once). |
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31 For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file that |
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32 came with the standard dumped precompiled distribution. If you have |
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33 problems with Emacs, including problems with dumping, send email to |
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34 help-emacs-windows@gnu.org. |
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36 Enjoy. |
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38 Andrew Innes |
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39 (andrewi@gnu.org) |