From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Emacs 19.34
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 19:03:59 -0500
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An Thi-Nguyen Le wrote:
> 
> Good morning.
> 
> I am running DGJPP 2 on a Pentium running Windows 95, with a DPMI memory of
> 19507 KB.  The problem is that emacs crashes on startup, which apparently
> was at least not a unique problem, according to the mail archives.  I don't
> know if it even qualifies as much for a crash as for 'not starting at all'.
>  No hanging, either, just a nice exit.  Out of frustration I resorted to
> 'emacs -nw', which complained a little about 'Cannot open load-file: case
> table'.  This emacs runs like this:

This is a well-known problem caused when you fail to unzip Emacs with a
long filename-aware unzip program.  When Emacs is run under Windows 95
with the LFN environment variable set to Y (or omitted), it expects to
find its runtime files under their full names (i.e., 'case-table.elc',
and others).  When you don't preserve long filenames correctly, they are
in DOS format ('case-tab.elc'), and are not found.

You have two solutions:

 - Set LFN=N when running Emacs
 - Delete your entire Emacs tree and unzip the packages again with a
utility that supports long filenames.  The 32-bit WinZIP and Info-ZIP
compiled under DJGPP both support this.
 - You could theoretically manually rename all the files to their LFN
equivalents, but this takes so much time and effort that it's not worth
the hassle.

Note:  please see chapter 8.2 of the FAQ if you want to make Emacs work
on _both_ LFN and non-LFN environments.

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