Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:58:41 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Myknees AT aol DOT com cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Emacs 19.34 In-Reply-To: <150682cb.34d90dbe@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Wed, 4 Feb 1998 Myknees AT aol DOT com wrote: > I remember reading that when I first installed djgpp and thinking, "edit the > registry?!!" Changing values in the registry is no different than editing your AUTOEXEC.BAT. It is a user-level facility. You shouldn't fear it. > I tried to follow the directions in the FAQ's section 8.2, but after re- > unzipping the emacs files, I see that the numeric tails are still there. Did you restart Windows after chaning the registry? The new values do not take effect until you restart. > Another possibility is that I messed up somewhere. I did not really know > whether I did the right thing when I entered a value for "NameNumericTail". > It opened a window for me to modify the value, and it had four zeros already. > I hit '0', and two more zeros appeared. So I figured I was done. Maybe that > is not what you meant. You should make it be two zeros, since it is a byte, not a word. I'd guess that 4 zeros will also work, but I've learned from bitter experience not to rely on Microsoft software being sensible.