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authorRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1997-08-14 22:40:14 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1997-08-14 22:40:14 +0000
commitb54a8d43a2577c083348504eefb72082ac5f24da (patch)
tree369efa21a6503a674aab2daf84b69e66c7e2f829 /INSTALL
parent96db060f6390c23b69dcacc74e1ec0092bb24e15 (diff)
downloademacs-b54a8d43a2577c083348504eefb72082ac5f24da.tar.gz
MSDOS updates.
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@@ -600,7 +600,12 @@ 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.)
+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.
When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be
created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install
@@ -623,9 +628,8 @@ 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 variables EMACSDATA (for the location of `etc' directory),
-EMACSLOADPATH (for the location of `lisp' directory) and INFOPATH (for
-the location of the `info' directory).
+environment variable HOME; if you do that, the directories lisp, etc
+and info are accessed as subdirectories of the HOME directory.
MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such
as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not