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Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 19:49:59 -0800
From: clarkja <clarkja AT mail DOT auburn DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: how do you install and setup emacs
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John M. Aldrich wrote:

> michael wrote:
> >
> > 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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