Mercurial > emacs
changeset 23406:37457777218a
Update Microsoft Windows entry.
| author | Geoff Voelker <voelker@cs.washington.edu> |
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| date | Fri, 09 Oct 1998 01:55:02 +0000 |
| parents | dc0f0b75165b |
| children | 4587be644789 |
| files | etc/FAQ |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/FAQ Thu Oct 08 20:31:34 1998 +0000 +++ b/etc/FAQ Fri Oct 09 01:55:02 1998 +0000 @@ -1985,26 +1985,31 @@ 84: Where can I get Emacs for my PC running Microsoft Windows? - * If you compile GNU Emacs with the tools listed above, it will run under + GNU Emacs has been fully ported to Windows NT and Windows 95/98. + If you have MSVC 4.0 or greater, then you can compile GNU Emacs + directly from the source distribution. First read the file + nt/README, and then the file nt/INSTALL, for step by step + instructions on how to compile and install GNU Emacs on your system. + + You can also download precompiled distributions of GNU Emacs from: + + ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs + + If you need the gunzip and tar utilities for unpacking distributions, + you can download precompiled versions from: + + ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/utilities + + For more information on configuring your favorite package to run with + GNU Emacs on Windows NT/95/98, see the following FAQ: + + http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html + ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/docs/ntemacs.html + + If you are running Windows 3.11, and if you compile GNU Emacs for MSDOS + with the tools listed in the previous question, it will run under Microsoft Windows in a DOS box. - There are currently two other ports of Emacs that runs under Microsoft - Windows: - - * Oemacs - - Current version of Oemacs4.1 is based on Emacs-19.19 and runs in either - MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows. There is rumor that the author Darryl - Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> would not update unless there is - demonstrated interest. It is nearly a full porting of GNU Emacs except - that shell-mode does not work due to the limitation of MS-DOS. - Anonymous ftp information: - - ftp.coast.net:SimTel/vendors/gnu/oemacs/ - - * The other uses a proprietary X Windows emulator and therefore - the FSF does not think it deserves publicity. - 85: Where can I get Emacs for my PC running OS/2? Emacs 19.27 is ported for emx on OS/2 2.0 or 2.1.