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- OEMACS
- Release 4.1 (BETA RELEASE)
- August 22, 1993
-
-
- This file describes the .zip files that comprise OEmacs Release
- 4.1, and the minimal set of .zip files required for use with plain
- MSDOS, Windows, or DESQview/X. Oemacs Release 4.1 is a version of GNU
- Emacs V19.19 that works under plain MSDOS, Windows, or DESQview/X.
-
- Note that all of the .zip files were created using the new pkzip
- 2.0 format. As a result, you cannot use old versions of pkunzip or
- unzip to extract the files in these archives. You must use an unzip
- program that understands the new pkzip 2.0 format.
-
- The complete OEmacs Release 4.1 distribution consists of the
- following files (a description of each is given below):
-
- elisp201.zip
- go32oe2.zip
- oe41el1.zip
- oe41el2.zip
- oe41el3.zip
- oe41gbin.zip
- oe41info.zip
- oe41min.zip
- oe41src1.zip
- oe41src2.zip
- oe41src3.zip
- oe41wbin.zip
- oe41xbin.zip
-
- elisp201.zip
- V19 Emacs-lisp programmer's manual. Basically, the same thing
- as the .tar.gz version, but with .dvi, .aux, etc. files deleted
- (the .tex files are still present, however).
- ***** IMPORTANT NOTE: Previous versions of this file contained a
- version-specific pathname. This is no longer true. As a
- result, you must explicitly set the value of
- `Info-directory-list" to contain the name of the directory with
- these info files.
- go32oe2.zip
- Sources & executables for the special GO32 needed for OEmacs.
- Note that each of the DJGCC, WATCOM, & DV/X binary distributions
- comes with a GO32 binary; this .zip file is needed only by those
- who want sources to GO32, or by those who want a debug32.exe
- that works with OEmacs.
- oe41el1.zip
- oe41el2.zip
- oe41el3.zip
- All .el and .elc files.
- oe41gbin.zip
- DJGPP-compiled binaries.
- oe41info.zip
- On-line documentation. This basically contains all of the files
- in the "emacs-19.19/info" directory.
- oe41min.zip
- This contains a "MINIMUM" set of files for OEmacs, not including
- binaries. This .zip file contains files that are duplicated in
- other .zip files. In addition to this file, a minimum
- installation requires a .zip file containing binaries. This
- file contains only a minimum set of files; if you want full
- functionality for emacs, you also need to obtain the following
- files:
-
- oe41el1.zip
- oe41el2.zip
- oe41el3.zip
- oe41info.zip
-
- Note that oe41min.zip contains duplicate files (files that are
- in other .zip archives). This is normal, and any "duplicate"
- files should be identical.
- oe41src1.zip
- oe41src2.zip
- oe41src3.zip
- This .zip file contains the files in "emacs-19.19/src",
- "emacs-19.19/etc", "emacs-19.19/man", etc.. It basically
- contains everything but .el and .elc files, and those files in
- "emacs-19.19/info".
- oe41wbin.zip
- WATCOM C/386-compiled binaries (etags.exe was compiled using
- DJGPP, however).
- oe41xbin.zip
- DV/X binaries.
-
-
- OEmacs Release 4.1 contains different versions of the "Emacs" binary:
-
- * An MSDOS binary compiled using DJGPP:
- Advantage: Starts up very fast.
- Advantage: Runs under plain MSDOS or within a Windows DOS
- box.
- Disadvantage: Requires a numeric coprocessor to run within
- Windows.
- Disadvantage: Shelling to DOS takes a long time.
- Disadvantage: Needs more memory to run under Windows.
-
- Minimally required files:
- oe41gbin.zip
- oe41min.zip
-
- You need at least 3MB of free disk space to install this
- version. The exact amount depends on the cluster size used on
- your hard disk.
-
- See the file called "install.dos" for installation instructions.
-
-
- * A binary compiled using WATCOM C/386 9.01E:
- Advantage: Does not require a numeric coprocessor to run
- within Windows.
- Advantage: Shelling to DOS is fast.
- Advantage: Runs under plain MSDOS or within a Windows DOS
- box.
- Disadvantage: Takes a while to start up (about 20 seconds on a
- 33MHz 486DX).
- Disadvantage: Uses much more disk space than the other
- versions (14MB vs 3MB).
-
- Minimally required files:
- oe41wbin.zip
- oe41min.zip
- oe41el1.zip
- oe41el2.zip
- oe41el3.zip
-
- You need at least 14MB of free disk space to install this
- version. The exact amount depends on the cluster size used on
- your hard disk.
-
- See the file called "install.dos" for installation instructions.
-
- * A DESQview/X binary compiled using DJGPP:
- Advantage: Starts up very fast.
- Advantage: Can display multiple X-windows (frames).
- Disadvantage: Does not work under plain MSDOS or Windows.
-
- Minimally required files:
- oe41xbin.zip
- oe41min.zip
-
- You need at least 3MB of free disk space to install this
- version. The exact amount depends on the cluster size used on
- your hard disk.
-
- See the file called "install.dos" for installation instructions.
-
-
- If you want to recompile OEmacs, you will need all of the
- non-binary .zip files, with the exception of "elisp201.zip" (which you
- do not need if you want to recompile OEmacs).
-