Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 13:18:31 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Georgi Boshnakov <G DOT Boshnakov AT gold DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: sh.exe in djgpp?
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On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Georgi Boshnakov wrote:

> Is there a "sh" program in djgpp, i.e. a program to expand shar archives?

DJGPP has a port of GNU Bash (v2gnu/bsh1147b.zip).  But you don't need 
the full Bash to expand shar archives: there are a few unshar programs on 
SimTel, in the msdos directory.

> There was a question about emacs window not fitting on the screen in a
> Windows 95 dos-box. The problem is that it doesn't fit with the size of the
> characters which seem most appropriate. Furthrmore, in that case one can
> scroll it with the mouse to see the invisible parts of the screen but (I
> think) this service comes from Windows, not from emacs which doesn't know that.

You need to change the font size that the DOS box uses.  It is set in the 
property sheets of the DOS box.

> Also, it is said in the documentation that one can work with long names if
> the environment variable LFN is set to y. However, this doesn't work with
> me. It seems that emacs exits during its initialization, there are no error
> messages, the result of invoking emacs in that case is the same with any
> program which executes silently and when finished returns to the prompt. 

You probably unzipped the Emacs distribution with an UnZip program that 
doesn't support long filenames.  This is all explained in the file 
README.dos which should be in your emacs directory; please read it.  If 
you need to have LFN support in Emacs, most probably you will have to 
delete the emacs directory and unzip the distribution again with a 
program that supports long filenames in zip archives.