Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 09:10:29 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Cc: Phil Galbiati <Philip DOT S DOT Galbiati AT Tek DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [Q] emacs on dos 6.22 or 5.xx?
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, John M. Aldrich wrote:

> fine in a Win 3.1 DOS shell, except for Windoze hooking Alt-Tab and the
> other special keystrokes.

This shouldn't be a problem, since Emacs doesn't know that Alt-TAB and 
TAB are different keys.  So you shouldn't have any reason to use Alt-TAB 
in Emacs.

> advantage of long filenames, IF you unzipped the archive under LFN with
> an LFN-aware unzip program.  This may also be the cause of it not
> finding the _emacs file:  you are running with LFN-enabled.

LFN should not have any effect on `_emacs'; Emacs looks for this file 
both with and without LFN support.

> FYI:  This may be related to some LFN-related confusion with files that
> begin with a single dot, like .gdbinit, etc.  That is a legal filename
> under Win95, but not under DOS.  However, I think Emacs uses _emacs
> whether it is in an LFN environment or not... Eli?

Correct, see above.

I'm sorry, I didn't get the original message, so I'm a bit unsure as to 
what the problem is.  Phil, could you repost the exact problem that you 
see (if you still have it)?  Thanks.