From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 13:13:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document the change whereby EMACSLOCKDIR is no longer used on Windows.
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Document the change whereby EMACSLOCKDIR is no longer used on Windows.
From Jason Rumney.
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 9f12148ac3d..ac03adf7e69 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ description of aspects specific to the Mac.
 
 * Changes in Emacs 21.1
 
++++
+** The environment variable `EMACSLOCKDIR' is no longer used on MS-Windows.
+This environment variable was used when creating lock files.  Emacs on
+MS-Windows does not use this variable anymore.  This change was made
+before Emacs 21.1, but wasn't documented until now.
+
 ** Flyspell mode has various new options.  See the `flyspell' Custom
 group.