Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 11:22:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Adrian Lybaek <v9k1 AT ugrad DOT cs DOT ubc DOT ca>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Can't get EMACS to work!
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On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Adrian Lybaek wrote:

> Unfortunately, I can't get emacs to run. I type "emacs", then it just
> sits there for a couple of seconds, and then I get back to the dos
> prompt.

Is that on Windows 95, plain DOS or Windows 3.X?  (Please make a point
of posting at least some details about your system configuration when
you report problems.)

If it's Windows 95, it's possible that this is because some conflict
between the way you unzipped the Emacs distribution and the long file
names support (or lack thereof) in DJGPP as installed on your system.
Please read the file README.dos in the Emacs distribution, and make
sure that you unzipped the *.zip files as it tells you.  If you did,
and it still doesn't work, type "set LFN=y" from the DOS prompt, then
try to run Emacs again and see if that helps.