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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2001-09-06 08:17:24 +0000 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2001-09-06 08:17:24 +0000 |
commit | 12d70bbb55fbbddb7de5ffcf7d2360a95cac49d8 (patch) | |
tree | 12147258819bc286af4673893e461cc683b51c9b /nt/INSTALL | |
parent | e44f8099bc2083d782ee66bbddf36154ea9d99b8 (diff) | |
download | emacs-12d70bbb55fbbddb7de5ffcf7d2360a95cac49d8.tar.gz |
Suggest not to use WinZip.
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diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL index ba63fa0262b..ae1dbf503f7 100644 --- a/nt/INSTALL +++ b/nt/INSTALL @@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ Copyright (c) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for copying permissions. + If you used WinZip to unpack the distribution, we suggest to + remove the files and unpack again with a different program! + WinZip is known to create some subtle and hard to debug problems, + such as converting files to DOS CR-LF format, not creating empty + directories, etc. We suggest to use djtarnt.exe from the GNU FTP + site. + To compile Emacs, you will need either Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0 or later and nmake, or a Windows port of GCC 2.95 or later with Mingw and W32 API support and a port of GNU make. You can use the Cygwin |