From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: installation of emacs on Windows Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 06:29:18 GMT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Message-ID: <2Zlyf.8576$%W1.1353@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net> References: <1137281196.256453.102730@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137306789 27828 80.91.229.2 (15 Jan 2006 06:33:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 06:33:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 15 07:33:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ey1Ro-0005is-Fi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 07:33:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ey1U2-0002OC-5t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:35:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!0847253b!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.159.163.67 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net Original-X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1137306558 4.159.163.67 (Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:29:18 PST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:29:18 PST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137038 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32659 Archived-At: "thickface" wrote in message news:1137281196.256453.102730@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > hi all, > i just downloaded two files, emacs-21.4a.tar and emacs-21.4a.tar.gz. > now i am trying to figure out how to install them. right now, i have > no idea. i even don't know what 'tar' and gz mean. > can anyone help me out?? thanks. > You might have a source tarball for Linux and a gzipped tarball. If you want to run a pre-compiled package under windows I would suggest that you fall back to 21.3. I think that newer versions than that for Doze are all CVS ( beta versions). http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz and if you want foreign language support: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-21.3-leim.tar.gz The djtarnt.exe (downloadable at): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/windows/utilities/i386/ works more reliably than Winzip. Go to a Dos window so you can see what's going on (start:run:command). Copy the djtarnt.exe and the the tar.gz file (or both tar.gz's) from wherever you downloaded them to, into any empty directory (e.g. \emacs) and run djtarnt -x emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz and then the other one. Finally type runemacs (or make a shortcut on the desktop with a start directory specified where you want to keep your edit files. You can also run addpm if you want emacs specific info written into Windows' registry. It's not necessary. Ed.