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   1                            Emacs for Windows
   2
   3 This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of GNU
   4 Emacs for Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 95/98/Me.  This distribution
   5 supplements the standard dumped precompiled distribution of Emacs, which
   6 you can download from:
   7
   8         ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/
   9
  10 If you do not have the "bin" distribution, then you will need to
  11 download it before you can use this undumped version.  Also note that
  12 you should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs
  13 with more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs
  14 after patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded.
  15
  16 The dumping process consists of running a bare Emacs, loading up a
  17 number of general elisp files, and then creating a new Emacs executable
  18 preinitialized and ready to run.  In the precompiled distributions,
  19 Emacs has already been dumped with the standard configuration.
  20
  21 To dump Emacs, unpack this distribution into the directory created by
  22 unpacking the corresponding standard precompiled distribution.  To
  23 verify that you unpacked in the proper place, check to make sure that
  24 you now have a temacs.exe file in the bin directory.
  25
  26 Once you have unpacked this distribution, cd into the bin directory and
  27 run dump.bat.  This will produce a new bin\emacs.exe executable for you
  28 to use (the original one is renamed to emacs.exe.orig; this is not
  29 overwritten if you run dump more than once).
  30
  31 For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file that
  32 came with the standard dumped precompiled distribution.  If you have
  33 problems with Emacs, including problems with dumping, send email to
  34 "help-emacs-windows@gnu.org".
  35
  36 Enjoy!