Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 18:50:04 -0800 (PST)
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To: "Jose de Jesus Castillo" <jcastillo AT hst DOT nasa DOT gov>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: EMACS and Win95/DOS
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At 03:05  12/17/1997 -0500, Jose de Jesus Castillo wrote:
>Hello all, I just pulled down my djgpp binaries from ftp.cdrom.com and
>unzipped them into there places. Everything seems to work but emacs. When I
>try to run it under Win95, I get disk activity and a DOS window comes up for
>a few seconds before flashing away without bringing up emacs. Under DOS is
>gives disk activity then returns a prompt with no emacs. I was going to try
>to start rebuilding it but I can't run config msdos. Some of the installed
>files have truncated endings(ie. config~1 config~1.in, etc..) I am missing
>something? Any ideas in fixing this, I would really like to use it.
One possible cause of the "flashing" problem is that you have an environment
variable called "TERM" set. If so, unset it and see if problems go away.
Another possible cause is that you didn't unzip with a LFN-compatible
unzipper. Try WinZip. FAQ section 22.14 talks about this more.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net