newbie install question

newbie install question

[Marty Landman]

Hi,

I d/l'd emacs-20.7.tar.gz from download.com, wanting to install this on a 
W95 box. When I open it using Iceows I get emacs-20.7.tar and when I open 
that file using Iceows I get 2,051 files totalling 52.1 MB.

After selecting them all and attempting to extract it goes so slowly that 
it is not practical to do. Is there something I'm doing wrong here? How 
long should it take to extract emacs from the windows binary?

Thanks in advance,
Marty

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newbie install question

[Marty Landman]

Hi,

I d/l'd emacs-20.7.tar.gz from download.com, wanting to install this on a 
W95 box. When I open it using Iceows I get emacs-20.7.tar and when I open 
that file using Iceows I get 2,051 files totalling 52.1 MB.

After selecting them all and attempting to extract it goes so slowly that 
it is not practical to do. Is there something I'm doing wrong here? How 
long should it take to extract emacs from the windows binary?

Thanks in advance,
Marty

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Re: newbie install question

[Richard V. Molen]

Marty Landman <marty@face2interface.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I d/l'd emacs-20.7.tar.gz from download.com, wanting to install this
> on a W95 box. When I open it using Iceows I get emacs-20.7.tar and
> when I open that file using Iceows I get 2,051 files totalling 52.1 MB.
> 
> After selecting them all and attempting to extract it goes so slowly
> that it is not practical to do. Is there something I'm doing wrong
> here? How long should it take to extract emacs from the windows binary?

My guess is that iceows does not properly support GNU zip.

Here is a wonderful FAQ on getting started with Emacs on M$ platforms.

www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/big.html

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