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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 1997-08-14 13:58:31 +0000 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 1997-08-14 13:58:31 +0000 |
commit | 9348f48cc816f1d187318e0ab400cc4f0404840d (patch) | |
tree | 5dba37ee442399828266611a3dc80b9734a7919b /INSTALL | |
parent | e9dc8970388c6a98226dd08d120ef8638d0dbfd8 (diff) | |
download | emacs-9348f48cc816f1d187318e0ab400cc4f0404840d.tar.gz |
Fix instructions for MSDOG.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
-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 |