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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 07:53:38 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: johan DOT eriksson AT mbox3 DOT swipnet DOT se
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Emacs 19.34
In-Reply-To: <326133b4.8989075@nntpserver.swip.net>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961014074704.16204T-100000@is>
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On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Johan Eriksson wrote:

> Everything compiled OK but I have a new problem. Emacs won't start in
> a DOS-box under win95 but it works fine when started from "pure" dos.
> If I try to start it in the dosshell I don't even get an error message
> I just get back the prompt. I am running win95 version 4.10.999 but I
> don't think that one is so different from the standard version.

The most probable reason is that you unzipped the package with long
filenames disabled (either on pure DOS or with LFN set to `n').  You need
to unzip the source distribution with DJTAR *and* set LFN=y in the
environment.  (If you need to be able to invoke Emacs from pure DOS on the
same machine, you will also need to set NameNumericTail in the Registry to
0 while you unzip and build Emacs; see the DJGPP FAQ for details about
this.)

If you didn't do the above, Emacs cannot find some files it loads at 
startup, because it looks for their long filenames on Windows 95, but 
only finds files with butchered 8+3 names.

> Another problem is that I can't locate the init-file for emacs
> (_emacs).

There is no such thing in the source distribution.  You are supposed to 
craft your own init file.  (I can mail you a file which might be a good 
starting point, though.)

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