From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 22:40:14 +0000 (+0000) Subject: MSDOS updates. X-Git-Tag: emacs-20.1~596 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b54a8d43a2577c083348504eefb72082ac5f24da;p=emacs.git MSDOS updates. --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 50e1a77626b..d5cfa39a752 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -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