Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 07:53:38 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: johan DOT eriksson AT mbox3 DOT swipnet DOT se Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Emacs 19.34 In-Reply-To: <326133b4.8989075@nntpserver.swip.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Johan Eriksson wrote: > Everything compiled OK but I have a new problem. Emacs won't start in > a DOS-box under win95 but it works fine when started from "pure" dos. > If I try to start it in the dosshell I don't even get an error message > I just get back the prompt. I am running win95 version 4.10.999 but I > don't think that one is so different from the standard version. The most probable reason is that you unzipped the package with long filenames disabled (either on pure DOS or with LFN set to `n'). You need to unzip the source distribution with DJTAR *and* set LFN=y in the environment. (If you need to be able to invoke Emacs from pure DOS on the same machine, you will also need to set NameNumericTail in the Registry to 0 while you unzip and build Emacs; see the DJGPP FAQ for details about this.) If you didn't do the above, Emacs cannot find some files it loads at startup, because it looks for their long filenames on Windows 95, but only finds files with butchered 8+3 names. > Another problem is that I can't locate the init-file for emacs > (_emacs). There is no such thing in the source distribution. You are supposed to craft your own init file. (I can mail you a file which might be a good starting point, though.)