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Re: [h-e-w] latest prebuilt Emacs for Win
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Stephen Leake |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] latest prebuilt Emacs for Win |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:09:33 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) |
Fletcher Blanchard <address@hidden> writes:
> Thanks, Stephe, I downloaded emacs-21.3.tar.gz . The Readme for Ver.
> 21.3, Jan 27, 2004, suggests that djtarnt.exe can be used in place of
> using both gunzip.exe and tar.exe, to unpack the file. I was unable to
> reach the /utilities site at gnu (505) to download djtarnt.exe, but
> did find it at another site. When I try to apply djtarnt.exe to the
> emacs file, it does not completely unpack but leaves the file
> emacs-21.3-bin-i386.tar . This suggests that there is still another
> step required to read the .tar file. What am I missing? Fletcher
I use either Winzip (www.winzip.com - I paid $50 years ago, and have
been getting free updates ever since; well worth it) or Cygwin
(www.cygwin.com) 'tar zxf <file>' to unpack .tar.gz files.
Emacs without Cygwin is like fish without water; also well worth it.
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-- Stephe