Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 13:28:46 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Tom Jelen <jelen AT cis DOT ohio-state DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: emacs problem with win95
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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Tom Jelen wrote:

> I installed emacs on my win95 machine using winzip, and when i go to
> gnu/emacs/bin and type 'emacs' all it does is give me another prompt, no
> error messages or anything, it just doesn't do anything.

It's all explained in the README.dos file.  You have some mismatch
between the way you set up winzip and the long file name support in
Emacs.  Either you unzipped without long file name support and set
Emacs *with* long names' support, or the other way around.

Go to the gnu/emacs/lisp directory, type "dir case-t*.* [Enter]" and
post here the exact output of the "dir" command.  That should reveal
which of the above is true, and allow to suggest the cure.

Or just read the README.dos file, near its end.  The same problem is
explained a bit differently in the file gnu/emacs/PROBLEMS; search for
the word "flashing".