From: awnbreel AT panix DOT com (Michael R Weholt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problems with emacs
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 97 05:00:30 GMT
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In article <32E38C2E DOT 74D0 AT bigfoot DOT com>,
      eric DOT devolder AT bigfoot DOT com wrote:
>Perkins wrote:
>> I am running win95 and I unzipped all the files useing PKZIP for windows
>> v2.50.
>
>Just try to unpack your djgpp package with pkunzip for DOS. (with 8.3 file
> format), and see if it works.

        Pardon me if I'm confused about the problem, but I believe 
this is precisely what one shouldn't do.  This is from the emacs 
readme file:

=============================================================
* Troubleshooting

If you encounter trouble trying to run Emacs, there are a couple of
possible causes.  If you didn't use the versions of tar and gunzip on
my ftp site, it is possible that the distribution became corrupted
while it was being unpacked.  Check the following for indications that
the distribution was not corrupted:

        [...]

  * Check that filenames were not truncated to 8.3.  For example, 
    there should be a file lisp\term\win32-win.el; if this has been
    truncated to win32-wi.el, your distribution has been corrupted
    while unpacking and Emacs will not start.

=============================================================

        BTW, I unpacked emacs using a nice little thing called unzip95 
that I got from simtel, I believe.  Emacs eems to work fine.  Unzip95 
is command-line rather than windows and it preserves long filenames.  
It has a little friend named zip95, too.


Michael R Weholt
 http://www.panix.com/~mrw/