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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2011-10-28 17:03:13 +0200 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2011-10-28 17:03:13 +0200 |
commit | 8cedc5acf983ed7736e8ad59528dbbf62bde7ade (patch) | |
tree | ce80e73d269c75d2b9f7293c7a57e191cffcf829 /nt/README.W32 | |
parent | 1a2ce9ee38c720f26189cc5e17d56309e6dbb76b (diff) | |
download | emacs-8cedc5acf983ed7736e8ad59528dbbf62bde7ade.tar.gz |
Document that UNICOWS.DLL is required to run Emacs on Windows 9X.
nt/README.W32: Mention UNICOWS.DLL as prerequisite for running
Emacs on Windows 9X.
admin/nt/README-ftp-server: Mention UNICOWS.DLL as prerequisite for
running Emacs on Windows 9X.
Fixes: debbugs:8562
Diffstat (limited to 'nt/README.W32')
-rw-r--r-- | nt/README.W32 | 21 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/nt/README.W32 b/nt/README.W32 index 4a3f7c41e9e..e4044e409d4 100644 --- a/nt/README.W32 +++ b/nt/README.W32 @@ -50,6 +50,17 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions. directly from a CD or USB flash drive without copying or installing anything on the machine itself. +* Prerequisites for Windows 9X + + To run Emacs on Windows 9X (Windows 95/98/Me), you will need to have + the Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU) installed. It can be + downloaded from the Microsoft site, and comes in a form of a single + dynamic library called UNICOWS.DLL. If this library is not + accessible to Emacs, it will pop up a dialog saying that it cannot + find the library, and will refuse to start up a GUI session. + (However, it is still possible to use Emacs in text mode, even + without UNICOWS.DLL, by invoking it as "emacs -nw", see below.) + * Starting Emacs To run Emacs, simply select Emacs from the Start Menu, or invoke @@ -75,7 +86,9 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions. it will pop up a command prompt window if run directly from Explorer. + runemacs.exe - A wrapper for running Emacs as a GUI application - without popping up a command prompt window. + without popping up a command prompt window. If you create a + desktop shortcut for invoking Emacs, make it point to this + executable, not to emacs.exe. + emacsclient.exe - A command-line client program that can communicate with a running Emacs process. See the `Emacs Server' @@ -98,7 +111,7 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions. + ddeclient.exe - A tool for interacting with DDE servers. - + hexl.exe - A tool for converting files to hex dumps. See the + + hexl.exe - A tool for producing hex dumps of binary files. See the `Editing Binary Files' node of the Emacs manual. + movemail.exe - A helper application for safely moving mail from @@ -194,6 +207,10 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions. truncated to abbrevli.elc, your distribution has been corrupted while unpacking and Emacs will not start. + * On Windows 9X, make sure you have the UNICOWS.DLL library either + in the same directory where you have emacs.exe or in the + directory where system-wide DLLs are kept. + If you believe you have unpacked the distributions correctly and are still encountering problems, see the section on Further Information below. |