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author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 1997-08-31 16:42:40 +0000 |
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committer | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 1997-08-31 16:42:40 +0000 |
commit | 3c248dbd36617460130f2699a43e3796eb8bb0ee (patch) | |
tree | 1cd031fe3bbda24707bbe00c30d6c16d7694469d | |
parent | 70590ba9d3b524bc35e98d367e439c0b8a8ecd9f (diff) | |
download | emacs-3c248dbd36617460130f2699a43e3796eb8bb0ee.tar.gz |
MSDOS-related changes.
-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 12 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -600,12 +600,7 @@ To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command: 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 @@ if you run Emacs under MS Windows. 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 |