From 99ed771f8e974cf9b92617faa7c493d7bc64b371 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Heuer Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 19:13:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify info about MS-DOS path handling. --- INSTALL | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 2a009f8db7d..49c5679117a 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -538,7 +538,13 @@ problem too late to include a more convenient fix--sorry. To save disk space, Emacs is built with the idea that you will execute it from the same place in the file system where you built it. As the /usr/local/ subtree does not exist on most MSDOG systems, the -executables are placed in /emacs/bin/. +executables might be placed in /emacs/bin/, for instance, in which +case there should also be /emacs/lisp, /emacs/info and /emacs/etc +directories. In general, with the default path handling, the etc/, +info/ and lisp/ directories are expected to exist in ../ relative to +the directory containing the executing binary. This behaviour can be +overridden by setting the HOME environment variable to the directory +containing lisp/ etc. MSDOG is a not a multitasking operating system, so Emacs features such as asynchronous subprocesses that depend on multitasking will not -- 2.39.2