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| 73b0cd50 | 1 | Copyright (C) 2001-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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2 | See the end of the file for license conditions. |
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| 7ee43737 | 4 | Emacs for Windows |
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6 | This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of |
| 7 | GNU Emacs for Windows. This barebin distribution supplements the | |
| 8 | standard distribution of Emacs, which you can download from: | |
| 31098a38 | 9 | |
| 9b058753 | 10 | ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ |
| 31098a38 | 11 | |
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12 | If you do not have the "bin" or "src" distribution, then you will need |
| 13 | to download one of those before you can use this barebin version. | |
| 14 | ||
| 15 | An additional feature of the barebin version that is not present in | |
| 16 | the bin distribution is that it contains an undumped binary of Emacs | |
| 17 | (temacs.exe). This can be used to dump Emacs yourself. Note that you | |
| 18 | should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs with | |
| 19 | more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs after | |
| 20 | patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded. | |
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21 | |
| 22 | The dumping process consists of running a bare Emacs, loading up a | |
| 23 | number of general elisp files, and then creating a new Emacs executable | |
| 24 | preinitialized and ready to run. In the precompiled distributions, | |
| 25 | Emacs has already been dumped with the standard configuration. | |
| 26 | ||
| 27 | To dump Emacs, unpack this distribution into the directory created by | |
| 9b058753 | 28 | unpacking the corresponding standard src or bin distribution. To |
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29 | verify that you unpacked in the proper place, check to make sure that |
| 30 | you now have a temacs.exe file in the bin directory. | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | Once you have unpacked this distribution, cd into the bin directory and | |
| 33 | run dump.bat. This will produce a new bin\emacs.exe executable for you | |
| 34 | to use (the original one is renamed to emacs.exe.orig; this is not | |
| 35 | overwritten if you run dump more than once). | |
| 36 | ||
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37 | For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file |
| 38 | that came with this distribution. If you need help using Emacs on | |
| 39 | Windows, including problems with dumping, send email to | |
| 40 | <help-emacs-windows@gnu.org>. | |
| 31098a38 | 41 | |
| 678c6e62 | 42 | Enjoy! |
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43 | |
| 44 | \f | |
| 45 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
| 46 | ||
| 9ad5de0c | 47 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
| 892df15e | 48 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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49 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
| 50 | (at your option) any later version. | |
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51 | |
| 52 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
| 53 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 54 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
| 55 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
| 56 | ||
| 57 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
| 9ad5de0c | 58 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |