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If you are a "perfect newbie", would it make more sense to 
just download the precompiled binaries?

"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_R=F6mer?=" <bernhard-roemer@gmx.de> writes:
> ok. i am honest. i am nearly a perfect newbie so here is my newbie
> question: i just downloaded the source for emacs 21.2 and now i
> would like to compile it so i can use it.  another bad message: i
> am using windows 98. at the moment there is no other possibility
> for me so please help me anyway.
> 
> i hope you know how desperate i am.

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