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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 |