X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/2846c6e3607995ce250435e5998ea6a08f60dd89..322b7dab59b98b5d8625d2cd29e48f1ce605f769:/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 diff --git a/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 b/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 index fc778d1321..8c7d1510a0 100644 --- a/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 +++ b/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 @@ -1,21 +1,23 @@ -Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 - Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2001-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. Emacs for Windows -This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of GNU -Emacs for Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 95/98/Me. This distribution -supplements the standard dumped precompiled distribution of Emacs, which -you can download from: +This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of +GNU Emacs for Windows. This barebin distribution supplements the +standard distribution of Emacs, which you can download from: - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ + ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ -If you do not have the "bin" distribution, then you will need to -download it before you can use this undumped version. Also note that -you should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs -with more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs -after patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded. +If you do not have the "bin" or "src" distribution, then you will need +to download one of those before you can use this barebin version. + +An additional feature of the barebin version that is not present in +the bin distribution is that it contains an undumped binary of Emacs +(temacs.exe). This can be used to dump Emacs yourself. Note that you +should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs with +more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs after +patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded. The dumping process consists of running a bare Emacs, loading up a number of general elisp files, and then creating a new Emacs executable @@ -23,7 +25,7 @@ preinitialized and ready to run. In the precompiled distributions, Emacs has already been dumped with the standard configuration. To dump Emacs, unpack this distribution into the directory created by -unpacking the corresponding standard precompiled distribution. To +unpacking the corresponding standard src or bin distribution. To verify that you unpacked in the proper place, check to make sure that you now have a temacs.exe file in the bin directory. @@ -32,10 +34,10 @@ run dump.bat. This will produce a new bin\emacs.exe executable for you to use (the original one is renamed to emacs.exe.orig; this is not overwritten if you run dump more than once). -For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file that -came with the standard dumped precompiled distribution. If you have -problems with Emacs, including problems with dumping, send email to -"help-emacs-windows@gnu.org". +For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file +that came with this distribution. If you need help using Emacs on +Windows, including problems with dumping, send email to +. Enjoy!