Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/02/03/22:18:42
From: | "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: | Re: Emacs 19.34
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Date: | Tue, 03 Feb 1998 19:03:59 -0500
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Organization: | Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt.
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Message-ID: | <34D7B06F.16AF@cs.com>
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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An Thi-Nguyen Le wrote:
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> 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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