From: Myknees AT aol DOT com
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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:06:55 EST
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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In a message dated 98-02-05 04:58:29 EST, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il writes:
>  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.

Not when I have explicit directions from a good source, I suppose.  :)

>  > 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.

Yes, I did. 
[snip]
I think I know what was going on.  Here's what just happened:

I went into the regedit program and entered a value such that when I finished
it looked like this:
NameNumericTail  00 00 00 00

Then I restarted Windows and created a text file on the desktop called "New
Text File.txt".  Then I went to DOS and saw that the filename had not been
"numeric-tailed".  So editing the Registry had worked.

Then I used PKZip2.50 (32-bit version) for Windows to unzip some Emacs files.
When I went to DOS, I saw that these new files had numeric tails.  So I used
InfoZip (slower) to unzip all the Emacs zip files, and the resulting files had
no numeric tails.  Now Emacs works from DOS.  

If this effect is reproducible on someone else's machine perhaps it's worth
mentioning in the FAQ, since PK Ware is very popular.

--Ed (Myknees)