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diff --git a/man/msdog.texi b/man/msdog.texi index 1c8747b1085..a584a2e796d 100644 --- a/man/msdog.texi +++ b/man/msdog.texi @@ -249,20 +249,20 @@ example, the name of a backup file for @file{docs.txt} is turn on support for long file names. If you do that, Emacs doesn't truncate file names or convert them to lower case; instead, it uses the file names that you specify, verbatim. To enable long file name -support, set the environment variable @code{LFN} to @samp{y} before +support, set the environment variable @env{LFN} to @samp{y} before starting Emacs. Unfortunately, Windows NT doesn't allow DOS programs to access long file names, so Emacs built for MS-DOS will only see their short 8+3 aliases. -@cindex @code{HOME} directory under MS-DOS +@cindex @env{HOME} directory under MS-DOS MS-DOS has no notion of home directory, so Emacs on MS-DOS pretends -that the directory where it is installed is the value of @code{HOME} +that the directory where it is installed is the value of @env{HOME} environment variable. That is, if your Emacs binary, @file{emacs.exe}, is in the directory @file{c:/utils/emacs/bin}, then -Emacs acts as if @code{HOME} were set to @samp{c:/utils/emacs}. In +Emacs acts as if @env{HOME} were set to @samp{c:/utils/emacs}. In particular, that is where Emacs looks for the init file @file{_emacs}. With this in mind, you can use @samp{~} in file names as an alias for -the home directory, as you would in Unix. You can also set @code{HOME} +the home directory, as you would in Unix. You can also set @env{HOME} variable in the environment before starting Emacs; its value will then override the above default behavior. |