Mercurial > emacs
changeset 14601:dc00c671ed30
Clarify info about MS-DOS path handling.
| author | Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org> |
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| 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