From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: how do you install and setup emacs
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 18:47:00 +0000
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michael wrote:
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> I would like to know how to install and setup emacs. I have downloaded and
> unzipped all the rquired zip files for emacs. however i can not find any
> information how i can start using it. I would like to now from someone who
> is currently using emacs on their pc, how they setup emacs.  I am an
> experienced emacs users on unix, and i am eager to know how i can start
> using it on my pc (windows95)  at home. Also I would like to know can i use
> the GNU debugger from within emacs as i can on my unix computer at work.

The current Emacs distribution should run without problems on a standard
Win95 installation, assuming that you unzipped the archives with an
unzip program that recognizes long filenames.  If you did not, then you
have little choice but to reinstall the package, because many things in
Emacs fail if you don't.  Some additional pointers:

- If you want your Emacs to work in both LFN and non-LFN environments,
you'll need to disable the Win95 registry option NameNumericTail (see
chapter 8.2 of the FAQ for instructions) before unzipping it.

- pkunzip and the unzip386.exe from the SimTel site do not recognize
long filenames.  If you have a recent copy of the 32-bit version of
WinZip, you can use it.  You can also download the InfoZip sources and
build their 'unzip' program.

As for debugging in Emacs, it requires a multithreading environment
which MS-DOS does not provide.  Even under Win95, the DJGPP version of
Emacs is a DOS-native program and does not allow multithreading.  Work
is in progress on multithreading libraries for DJGPP, but until there is
a reliable library available that works with Emacs, you must either do
without, or download a version of Emacs that is Win32 native.  Such a
version exists at
<http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html>, but I don't
know how compatible it is with DJGPP programs.

If you're not a fanatic about IDEs, you might consider using RHIDE for
interactive debugging.  It's an IDE based on Borland's Turbo Vision
interface, and the latest versions have gdb built in.

hth

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