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authorRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1997-08-31 16:42:40 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1997-08-31 16:42:40 +0000
commit3c248dbd36617460130f2699a43e3796eb8bb0ee (patch)
tree1cd031fe3bbda24707bbe00c30d6c16d7694469d /INSTALL
parent70590ba9d3b524bc35e98d367e439c0b8a8ecd9f (diff)
downloademacs-3c248dbd36617460130f2699a43e3796eb8bb0ee.tar.gz
MSDOS-related changes.
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+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -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