Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 13:31:14 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Mike Sabin cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: newbie needs help configuring emacs In-Reply-To: <01bc42a2$2085b520$2241d9cd@sabin> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 6 Apr 1997, Mike Sabin wrote: > I have downloaded and installed djgpp and related files on my Win95 > machine, in D:\djgpp\. All of the utilities that I have tried so far work, > including the compiler. Emacs does not work, however. When I type "emacs" > in a DOS window, something clearly executes briefly, then I am at the D: > prompt again. No editor comes up. What am I doing wrong? Look in your D:\DJGPP\GNU\EMACS\LISP directory for a file called `case-table.elc'. If what you see is `case-tab.elc', then you didn't unzip the package with a program that supports long filenames on Windows 95. Emacs loads certain files at startup, and will fail to start if it doesn't see those specific files. You need to unzip Emacs again with a program that supports long filenames, otherwise the names are truncated when you unzip the files, and Emacs doesn't find them because on Windows 95 the short and the long names aren't the same. If you do see a file `case-table.elc' in the LISP directory, the problem probably is that the support for long filenames is turned off. To turn on the long filenames support, type this from the DOS prompt, before invoking Emacs: set LFN=y Sigh... This is by far the most frequent problem with Emacs installations on Windows 95. I cannot understand why does it happen so much, since I described all these considerations in the emacs.README file which is available from the same place where you got the rest of em1934*.zip (it is inside the zip files under the name README.dos). Did you read that file before unzipping? If so, please tell me what is it that I should say more clearly there for these problems to stop bugging others. Thanks.