From 9b0587538efc623b79eddf46ac392f4c4f5db795 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Rumney Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:31:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Modify for barebin distribution, as undumped distribution no longer exists. --- admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 | 33 ++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 b/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 index c89aa2c30e8..bf64d03ac6c 100644 --- a/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 +++ b/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 @@ -4,18 +4,21 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions. Emacs for Windows -This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of GNU -Emacs for Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 95/98/Me. This distribution -supplements the standard dumped precompiled distribution of Emacs, which -you can download from: +This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of +GNU Emacs for Windows. This barebin distribution supplements the +standard distribution of Emacs, which you can download from: - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ + ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ -If you do not have the "bin" distribution, then you will need to -download it before you can use this undumped version. Also note that -you should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs -with more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs -after patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded. +If you do not have the "bin" or "src" distribution, then you will need +to download one of those before you can use this barebin version. + +An additional feature of the barebin version that is not present in +the bin distribution is that it contains an undumped binary of Emacs +(temacs.exe). This can be used to dump Emacs yourself. Note that you +should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs with +more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs after +patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded. The dumping process consists of running a bare Emacs, loading up a number of general elisp files, and then creating a new Emacs executable @@ -23,7 +26,7 @@ preinitialized and ready to run. In the precompiled distributions, Emacs has already been dumped with the standard configuration. To dump Emacs, unpack this distribution into the directory created by -unpacking the corresponding standard precompiled distribution. To +unpacking the corresponding standard src or bin distribution. To verify that you unpacked in the proper place, check to make sure that you now have a temacs.exe file in the bin directory. @@ -32,10 +35,10 @@ run dump.bat. This will produce a new bin\emacs.exe executable for you to use (the original one is renamed to emacs.exe.orig; this is not overwritten if you run dump more than once). -For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file that -came with the standard dumped precompiled distribution. If you have -problems with Emacs, including problems with dumping, send email to -"help-emacs-windows@gnu.org". +For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file +that came with this distribution. If you need help using Emacs on +Windows, including problems with dumping, send email to +. Enjoy! -- 2.39.5