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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2001-09-06 08:17:24 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2001-09-06 08:17:24 +0000
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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