Mercurial > emacs
changeset 19352:6cf4badd0d76
MSDOS updates.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Thu, 14 Aug 1997 22:40:14 +0000 |
| parents | cf429b6a3ab8 |
| children | 885b89f866b4 |
| files | INSTALL |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/INSTALL Thu Aug 14 22:11:09 1997 +0000 +++ b/INSTALL Thu Aug 14 22:40:14 1997 +0000 @@ -600,7 +600,12 @@ djtar -x emacs.tgz (This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on -your system.) +your system.) There are a few files in the archive whose names +collide with other files under the 8.3 DOS naming. On native MSDOS, +or if you have set LFN=n on Windows 95, djtar will ask you to supply +alternate names for these files; you can just press `Enter' when this +happens (which makes djtar skip these files) because they aren't +required for MS-DOS. When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install @@ -623,9 +628,8 @@ Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in ../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the -environment variables EMACSDATA (for the location of `etc' directory), -EMACSLOADPATH (for the location of `lisp' directory) and INFOPATH (for -the location of the `info' directory). +environment variable HOME; if you do that, the directories lisp, etc +and info are accessed as subdirectories of the HOME directory. MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not