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Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 11:20:39 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: John Meyer <john_meyer AT geocities DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Emacs
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980806181256.00797820@mail.geocities.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980809112006.28066F-100000@is>
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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, John Meyer wrote:

> To define "screwy", with the emacs version that comes with DJGPP, I hit
> emacs.exe, and it just quickly flashes a blank dos screen to my windows 95
> screen and disappears (I've also tried in DOS, with no luck)

Set LFN=y in the environment, and it will work.

FWIW, it's all explained in the README.dos file which comes with the
distribution (in the section Troubleshooting, near the end).

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