X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/31098a38c7e84b5b6c2097e535ff0d2134b372e8..fb14cb489aba648435c879dc83a18c756147724c:/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 diff --git a/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 b/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 index bd8f968fb0..2859140ce4 100644 --- a/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 +++ b/admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32 @@ -1,21 +1,23 @@ - Emacs for Windows NT and Windows 95/98/2000 +Copyright (C) 2001-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +See the end of the file for license conditions. - Version 21.0.104 pretest + Emacs for Windows - July 16, 2001 - -This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of GNU -Emacs for Windows NT and Windows 95/98/2000. 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/windows/emacs/ + 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. @@ -32,12 +34,25 @@ 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 -"ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu". +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! + + +This file is part of GNU Emacs. + +GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +(at your option) any later version. -Enjoy. +GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +GNU General Public License for more details. -Andrew Innes -(andrewi@gnu.org) +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with GNU Emacs. If not, see .