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Clarify info about MS-DOS path handling.

14600:f32beac333a0

problem too late to include a more convenient fix--sorry.

To save disk space, Emacs is built with the idea that you will execute
it from the same place in the file system where you built it.  As the
/usr/local/ subtree does not exist on most MSDOG systems, the
executables are placed in /emacs/bin/.

MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such
as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not
work.  Synchronous subprocesses do work.

14601:dc00c671ed30

problem too late to include a more convenient fix--sorry.

To save disk space, Emacs is built with the idea that you will execute
it from the same place in the file system where you built it.  As the
/usr/local/ subtree does not exist on most MSDOG systems, the
executables might be placed in /emacs/bin/, for instance, in which
case there should also be /emacs/lisp, /emacs/info and /emacs/etc
directories.  In general, with the default path handling, the etc/,
info/ and lisp/ directories are expected to exist in ../ relative to
the directory containing the executing binary.  This behaviour can be
overridden by setting the HOME environment variable to the directory
containing lisp/ etc.

MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such
as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not
work.  Synchronous subprocesses do work.