Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:35:15 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: ienstien <ienstien AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: HELP!!-emacs doesn't run?
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On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, ienstien wrote:

> i get some error like this too... if i load emacs (which worked the
> first or so times i used it) it starts to initialize but no window
> starts and it just returns to dos prompt...

Come on, people, don't you read the README files?  It's all there, you
know, that's why I went through the trouble of writing that README.dos
thing.

Set LFN=y in the environment, and most probably Emacs will start up
smooth as silk.  (I assume you tried to run it in Windows 95, although
you left me guessing in the dark.)

> i tried to run it in nt and it said some errors occured with
> variables while downloading

``errors with variables while downloading''??  Are you sure?  Please
post the exact wording of the message(s).  I have never seen anything
like that, and Emacs works flawlessly on NT as well.