Updates for current state of Windows port.

diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index ddd60de818d3132e0159093dc2e2ffba29978896..513e3fcaec43ccf883ba70f8bcfcd48f5e532297 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ __MSVCRT__, like so:
 
 The error message might be something like this:
 
- Converting d:/emacs-21.1/leim/CXTERM-DIC/4Corner.tit to quail-package...
+ Converting d:/emacs-21.2/leim/CXTERM-DIC/4Corner.tit to quail-package...
  Invalid ENCODE: value in TIT dictionary
  NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"../src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe"' : return code
        '0xffffffff'
@@ -338,9 +338,9 @@ characters, is copied and pasted into a buffer.
 An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows
 Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed.
 
-Windows 2000 input methods are not recognized by Emacs (as of v21.2).
-These input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded in
-the appropriate coding system (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for Latin-1
+Windows input methods are not recognized by Emacs (as of v21.2).  Some
+of these input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded
+in the appropriate coding system (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for Latin-1
 characters, ISO 8859-8 for Hebrew characters, etc.).  To make this
 work, set the keyboard coding system to the appropriate value after
 you activate the Windows input method.  For example, if you activate
@@ -349,12 +349,12 @@ ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up the
 appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do that
 yet.)
 
-Multilingual text put into the Windows 2000 clipboard by Windows
+Multilingual text put into the Windows clipboard by other Windows
 applications cannot be safely pasted into Emacs (as of v21.2).  This
-is because Windows 2000 uses Unicode to represent multilingual text,
-but Emacs does not yet support Unicode well enough to decode it.  This
+is because Windows uses Unicode to represent multilingual text, but
+Emacs does not yet support Unicode well enough to decode it.  This
 means that Emacs can only interchange non-ASCII text with other
-Windows 2000 programs if the characters are in the system codepage.
+Windows programs if the characters are in the system codepage.
 Reportedly, a partial solution is to install the Mule-UCS package and
 set selection-coding-system to utf-16-le-dos.
 
@@ -517,10 +517,10 @@ confuses ange-ftp.
 
 The solution is to downgrade to an older version of the Cygwin DLL
 (version 1.3.2 was reported to solve the problem), or use the stock
-Windows FTP client, usually found in the `C:\WINDOWS' directory.  To
-force ange-ftp use the stock Windows client, set the variable
-`ange-ftp-ftp-program-name' to the absolute file name of the client's
-executable.  For example:
+Windows FTP client, usually found in the `C:\WINDOWS' or 'C:\WINNT'
+directory.  To force ange-ftp use the stock Windows client, set the
+variable `ange-ftp-ftp-program-name' to the absolute file name of the
+client's executable.  For example:
 
  (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-name "c:/windows/ftp.exe")
 
@@ -1582,7 +1582,8 @@ Under Windows, the AltGr key on international keyboards generates key
 events with the modifiers Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl.  Since Emacs cannot
 distinguish AltGr from an explicit Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl
 combination, whenever it sees Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl it assumes that
-AltGr has been pressed.
+AltGr has been pressed.  The variable `w32-recognize-altgr' can be set
+to nil to tell Emacs that AltGr is really Ctrl and Alt.
 
 * Under some Windows X-servers, Emacs' display is incorrect 
 
@@ -1877,24 +1878,6 @@ For Perl 4:
       }
       else {
 
-* Problems running DOS programs on Windows NT versions earlier than 3.51.
-
-Some DOS programs, such as pkzip/pkunzip will not work at all, while
-others will only work if their stdin is redirected from a file or NUL.
-
-When a DOS program does not work, a new process is actually created, but
-hangs.  It cannot be interrupted from Emacs, and might need to be killed
-by an external program if Emacs is hung waiting for the process to
-finish.  If Emacs is not waiting for it, you should be able to kill the
-instance of ntvdm that is running the hung process from Emacs, if you
-can find out the process id.
-
-It is safe to run most DOS programs using call-process (eg. M-! and
-M-|) since stdin is then redirected from a file, but not with
-start-process since that redirects stdin to a pipe.  Also, running DOS
-programs in a shell buffer prompt without redirecting stdin does not
-work.
-
 * Problems on MS-DOG if DJGPP v2.0 is used to compile Emacs:
 
 There are two DJGPP library bugs which cause problems:
@@ -1971,11 +1954,13 @@ your system works as before.
 This character seems to be trapped by the kernel in Windows 95.
 You can enter M-f6 by typing ESC f6.
 
-* Typing Alt-Shift has strange effects on Windows 95.
+* Typing Alt-Shift has strange effects on Windows.
 
 This combination of keys is a command to change keyboard layout.  If
 you proceed to type another non-modifier key before you let go of Alt
-and Shift, the Alt and Shift act as modifiers in the usual way.
+and Shift, the Alt and Shift act as modifiers in the usual way.  A
+more permanent work around is to change it to another key combination,
+or disable it in the keyboard control panel.
 
 * `tparam' reported as a multiply-defined symbol when linking with ncurses.