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1 Emacs for Windows
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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/2000/XP and Windows 95/98/Me. 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/emacs/windows/
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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!