changeset 14601:dc00c671ed30

Clarify info about MS-DOS path handling.
author Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org>
date Tue, 20 Feb 1996 19:13:05 +0000
parents f32beac333a0
children 830d54a0d39b
files INSTALL
diffstat 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/INSTALL	Tue Feb 20 19:09:48 1996 +0000
+++ b/INSTALL	Tue Feb 20 19:13:05 1996 +0000
@@ -538,7 +538,13 @@
 To save disk space, Emacs is built with the idea that you will execute
 it from the same place in the file system where you built it.  As the
 /usr/local/ subtree does not exist on most MSDOG systems, the
-executables are placed in /emacs/bin/.
+executables might be placed in /emacs/bin/, for instance, in which
+case there should also be /emacs/lisp, /emacs/info and /emacs/etc
+directories.  In general, with the default path handling, the etc/,
+info/ and lisp/ directories are expected to exist in ../ relative to
+the directory containing the executing binary.  This behaviour can be
+overridden by setting the HOME environment variable to the directory
+containing lisp/ etc.
 
 MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such
 as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not