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(ange-ftp-expand-file-name): Set default to default-directory if nil. Check whether default starts with a drive specifier on windows-nt, as well as name, and call real function if so. Remove code to strip prefix before // or /~ since `expand-file-name' itself no longer does that. (ange-ftp-expand-dir): Use `grep-null-device' instead of "/dev/null", which is incorrect on windows-nt. (ange-ftp-file-name-all-completions): Fix root directory regexp for windows-nt. (ange-ftp-start-process): On windows-nt, always send a "help foo" command to ensure the ftp process produces some output, and force the process to use raw-text-dos decoding. (ange-ftp-canonize-filename): On windows-nt, strip drive specifier from expanded remote name. (ange-ftp-write-region): Allow binary transfer on windows-nt if remote host type is unix. Ensure `last-coding-system-used' is given an appropriate value, so that basic-save-buffer isn't confused by the coding used with the ftp process. (ange-ftp-insert-file-contents): Ditto. (ange-ftp-copy-file-internal): Ditto. (ange-ftp-real-expand-file-name): Use standard definition on windows-nt. (ange-ftp-real-expand-file-name-actual): Remove obsolete function. (ange-ftp-disable-netrc-security-check): Make default value be t on windows-nt. (ange-ftp-start-process): Undo previous change.

README for Edition 2.5 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.

* This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Reference
Manual, make-permuted-index, and the latest version of texinfo.tex,
which handles forms that cannot be handled by the older versions of
texinfo.tex.

* Report Lisp Manual bugs to [e-mail].  We don't read
these bug reports until it's time for a new edition.  To report other
Emacs bugs, use [e-mail].  To ask questions, use the
newsgroup gnu.emacs.help.

* The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large.  It totals around
700 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost two
megabytes.

* You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy
using TeX.  

* You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation.
For info, send mail to [e-mail] or phone [phone].  Buying a
manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU
development work.

** This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make.
Otherwise, here are detailed instructions:

** HARDCOPY: A copy of the version of `texinfo.tex' that formats this
manual is included in this distribution.

The master file for formatting this manual for Tex is called
`elisp.texi'.  It contains @include commands to include all the
chapters that make up the manual.  In addition, `elisp.texi' has
the title page in a new format designed by Karl Berry, using the
@titlespec command.

To create a DVI file with a sorted index, execute the following
commands in the shell:

% make index.texi
% make elisp.dvi

*** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment
with `make-permuted-index'.  

** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run
`make elisp'.