From: Karl Heuer Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 19:50:23 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Clarify info about long filenames on MSDOS-like systems. X-Git-Tag: emacs-19.34~129 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e60ea278e132b85b3180c7a89653dcc398f95897;p=emacs.git Clarify info about long filenames on MSDOS-like systems. --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index e78e8fd24d4..18cafe3916e 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -544,7 +544,13 @@ It is important to understand that the runtime support of long file names by the Emacs binary is NOT affected by the LFN setting during compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always support long file names on Windows 95 no matter what was the setting -of LFN at compile time. +of LFN at compile time. However, if you compiled with LFN disabled +and want to enable LFN support after Emacs was already built, you need +to make sure that the support files in the lisp, etc and info +directories are called by their original long names as found in the +distribution. You can do this either by renaming the files manually, +or by extracting them from the original distribution archive with +djtar after you set LFN=y in the environment. To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command: @@ -552,10 +558,11 @@ To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command: (This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on your system.) There are a few files in the archive whose names -collide with other files under the 8.3 DOS naming. If you have set -LFN=n, 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. +collide with other files under the 8.3 DOS naming. On native MSDOS, +or if you have set LFN=n on Win95, 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