admin/nt/README-UNDUMP.W32

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   2   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3 See the end of the file for license conditions.
   4
   5                            Emacs for Windows
   6
   7 This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of GNU
   8 Emacs for Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 95/98/Me.  This distribution
   9 supplements the standard dumped precompiled distribution of Emacs, which
  10 you can download from:
  11
  12         ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/
  13
  14 If you do not have the "bin" distribution, then you will need to
  15 download it before you can use this undumped version.  Also note that
  16 you should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs
  17 with more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs
  18 after patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded.
  19
  20 The dumping process consists of running a bare Emacs, loading up a
  21 number of general elisp files, and then creating a new Emacs executable
  22 preinitialized and ready to run.  In the precompiled distributions,
  23 Emacs has already been dumped with the standard configuration.
  24
  25 To dump Emacs, unpack this distribution into the directory created by
  26 unpacking the corresponding standard precompiled distribution.  To
  27 verify that you unpacked in the proper place, check to make sure that
  28 you now have a temacs.exe file in the bin directory.
  29
  30 Once you have unpacked this distribution, cd into the bin directory and
  31 run dump.bat.  This will produce a new bin\emacs.exe executable for you
  32 to use (the original one is renamed to emacs.exe.orig; this is not
  33 overwritten if you run dump more than once).
  34
  35 For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file that
  36 came with the standard dumped precompiled distribution.  If you have
  37 problems with Emacs, including problems with dumping, send email to
  38 "help-emacs-windows@gnu.org".
  39
  40 Enjoy!
  41
  42 \f
  43 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  44
  45 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  46 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  47 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  48 (at your option) any later version.
  49
  50 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  51 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  52 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  53 GNU General Public License for more details.
  54
  55 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  56 along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.