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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Wow, you guys made a major improvement in this area, I am so happy!! Way to go!!!!!!!!!! On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 10:53 AM Phillip Lord wrote: > > I entirely agree with this. Combined with the single multiple-top-level > zip file, the windows download is not obvious. And using Emacs without > having msys installed is a limited experience because it misses lots of > DLLs that it needs. > > The README with the pre-test binaries really sucks als (my fault). This > situation could be improved significantly. > > Phil > > > Jay Walker writes: > > > Yes, thank you so much for your help! Ok, so I am assuming to be > completely > > new at Emacs. Based on the Windows Download instructions, but also OSX,= I > > can=C2=B4t really tell what to do. Following what the website says, it > appears I > > can either download a zip file from a mirror, or get MSYS2 in order to > > download it that way. It seemed that MSYS2 was a better approach becaus= e > > downloading it gives me a bunch of files I have no idea what to do with= . > So > > once I have gotten MSYS2 (a link would be helpful!), I enter the comman= d > > and see that it has downloaded. But what's next? Perhaps it would be > useful > > to have a link to the next steps to getting emacs running. I type in > > =C2=B4emacs=C2=B4 and it is unrecognized. Do you feel me on what I am g= etting at? > > Thanks for your patience and attentiveness! > > Jay > > > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:42 PM Nicolas Petton > wrote: > > > >> Jay Walker writes: > >> > >> Hi Jay, > >> > >> > I followed your download instructions and found they are so lacking, > >> please > >> > update! > >> > >> Which download instructions are you talking about? Was it the > >> instructions for Windows installation found on the Emacs website? > >> > >> Nico > >> > --=20 *Jay Walker Paz* *Implementation/Support* *O: 612-424-6735* *www.conserviscorp.com * --001a1149a178d4f16d05387595dc Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Wow, you guys made a major improvement in this area, I am = so happy!! Way to go!!!!!!!!!!

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 10:53 AM Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> wrote:
=

I entirely agree with this. Combined with the single multiple-top-level
zip file, the windows download is not obvious. And using Emacs without
having msys installed is a limited experience because it misses lots of
DLLs that it needs.

The README with the pre-test binaries really sucks als (my fault). This
situation could be improved significantly.

Phil


Jay Walker <jwalker@conserviscorp.com> writes:

> Yes, thank you so much for your help! Ok, so I am assuming to be compl= etely
> new at Emacs. Based on the Windows Download instructions, but also OSX= , I
> can=C2=B4t really tell what to do. Following what the website says, it= appears I
> can either download a zip file from a mirror, or get MSYS2 in order to=
> download it that way. It seemed that MSYS2 was a better approach becau= se
> downloading it gives me a bunch of files I have no idea what to do wit= h. So
> once I have gotten MSYS2 (a link would be helpful!), I enter the comma= nd
> and see that it has downloaded. But what's next? Perhaps it would = be useful
> to have a link to the next steps to getting emacs running. I type in > =C2=B4emacs=C2=B4 and it is unrecognized. Do you feel me on what I am = getting at?
> Thanks for your patience and attentiveness!
> Jay
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:42 PM Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr> wrote:
>
>> Jay Walker <jwalker@conserviscorp.com> writes:
>>
>> Hi Jay,
>>
>> > I followed your download instructions and found they are so l= acking,
>> please
>> > update!
>>
>> Which download instructions are you talking about?=C2=A0 Was it th= e
>> instructions for Windows installation found on the Emacs website?<= br> >>
>> Nico
>>
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