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Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 12:10:43 -0800
From: "Alan M. Doerhoefer" <aland AT seanet DOT com>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: emacs under dos with cwsdpmi -- problem
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On Tues, 4 Nov 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> In your case, the problem most probably is that when you unzipped
> Emacs, you didn't turn off those pesky numeric tails that Windows
> creates when it generates the 8+3 short aliases for long file names.
> Emacs looks for a file named lisp/case-table.elc on startup, but
> because of the numeric tails, what it sees is lisp/case-t~1.elc, which
> is not the same as the truncated case-tab.elc.
> 
> If you want a dual DOS/Windows Emacs installation, you need to delete
> the entire Emacs installation tree, set NameNumericTail property in
> the Windows registry to zero (the DJGPP FAQ explains how, in section
> 8.2), restart Windows, and unzip the Emacs distribution again with an
> unzip program which supports long file name (if that unzip program was
> compiled with DJGPP, make sure you set LFN=y before you unzip).
> 

That was the exact problem. Thanks for your help Eli. 
Now Emacs works in DOS & Win95, and I am relieved of those 
irritating file aliases!
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