# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 999764244 0 # Node ID ac1c50b8ffea918f7fde5a90bb75b3410072a5d3 # Parent 9c15101341c70cfe4f60b28ea05684862f26f47f Suggest not to use WinZip. diff -r 9c15101341c7 -r ac1c50b8ffea nt/INSTALL --- a/nt/INSTALL Thu Sep 06 08:12:53 2001 +0000 +++ b/nt/INSTALL Thu Sep 06 08:17:24 2001 +0000 @@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ Copyright (c) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for copying permissions. + If you used WinZip to unpack the distribution, we suggest to + remove the files and unpack again with a different program! + WinZip is known to create some subtle and hard to debug problems, + such as converting files to DOS CR-LF format, not creating empty + directories, etc. We suggest to use djtarnt.exe from the GNU FTP + site. + To compile Emacs, you will need either Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0 or later and nmake, or a Windows port of GCC 2.95 or later with Mingw and W32 API support and a port of GNU make. You can use the Cygwin