Mercurial > emacs
changeset 19635:c08a8e2d0f27
MSDOS-related changes.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Sun, 31 Aug 1997 16:42:40 +0000 |
| parents | 118761d47324 |
| children | 77fa90ed939d |
| files | INSTALL |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/INSTALL Sun Aug 31 07:58:46 1997 +0000 +++ b/INSTALL Sun Aug 31 16:42:40 1997 +0000 @@ -600,12 +600,7 @@ djtar -x emacs.tgz (This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on -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. +your system.) When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install @@ -628,8 +623,9 @@ 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 variable HOME; if you do that, the directories lisp, etc -and info are accessed as subdirectories of the HOME directory. +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). MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not