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Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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See the end of the file for license conditions.
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Precompiled Distributions of
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Emacs for Windows
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Version 24.3
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March 18, 2013
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This directory contains precompiled distributions for GNU Emacs on
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Windows (versions before Windows 95 and NT4 are not supported).
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This port is a part of the standard GNU Emacs distribution from the
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Free Software Foundation; the precompiled distributions are provided
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here for convenience since the majority of Windows users are not
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accustomed to compiling programs themselves. Corresponding source
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can be found in the parent directory in emacs-24.3.tar.gz.
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* IMPORTANT LEGAL REMINDER
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If you want to redistribute any of the precompiled distributions of
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Emacs, be careful to check the implications of the GPL. For instance,
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if you put the emacs-24.3-bin-i386.zip file from this directory on
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an Internet site, you must arrange to distribute the source files of
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the SAME version (i.e. ../emacs-24.3.tar.gz).
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Making a link to our copy of the source is NOT sufficient, since we
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might upgrade to a new version while you are still distributing the
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old binaries.
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* Files in this directory
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+ emacs-24.3-bin-i386.zip
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Windows binaries of Emacs-24.3, with all lisp code and documentation
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included.
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Download this file if you want a single installation package, and
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are not interested in the C source code for Emacs. After
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unpacking, you can optionally run the file bin/addpm.exe to have
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Emacs add icons to the Start Menu.
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If you need the C source code at a later date, it will be safe to
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unpack the source distribution on top of this installation.
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+ libXpm-3.5.8-w32-src.zip
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Source code required to compile libXpm-3.5.8 on Windows. Contains
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a basic Makefile for compiling with mingw32 and a .def file for
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generating a DLL with the appropriate exports in addition to the
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source code to provide the subset of functionality Emacs uses from
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libXpm. This corresponds to the libXpm.dll in emacs-24.3-bin-i386.zip.
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* Prerequisites for running Emacs on Windows 9X
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Using Emacs in GUI mode on Windows 95/98/Me requires the UNICOWS.DLL
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dynamic library, which provides MSLU, the Microsoft Unicode Layer
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for Windows 9X. You can freely download it from the Microsoft site.
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* Image support
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Emacs 24.3 contains support for images, however for most image
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formats supporting libraries are required. This distribution has
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been tested with the libraries that are distributed with GTK for
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Windows (http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php), and the libraries
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found at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. The following image
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formats are supported:
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PBM/PGM/PPM: Supported natively by Emacs. This format is used for
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the black and white versions of the toolbar icons.
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XPM: a Windows port of the XPM library corresponding to the x.org
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release of X11R7.3 is included with the binary distribution, but
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can be replaced by other versions with the name xpm4.dll,
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libxpm-nox4.dll or libxpm.dll.
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PNG: requires the PNG reference library 1.4 or later, which will
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be named libpng14.dll or libpng14-14.dll. LibPNG requires zlib,
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which should come from the same source as you got libpng.
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Starting with Emacs 23.3, the precompiled Emacs binaries are
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built with libpng 1.4.x and later, and are incompatible with
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earlier versions of libpng DLLs. So if you have libpng 1.2.x,
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the PNG support will not work, and you will have to download
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newer versions.
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JPEG: requires the Independent JPEG Group's libjpeg 6b or later,
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which will be called jpeg62.dll, libjpeg.dll, jpeg-62.dll or jpeg.dll.
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TIFF: requires libTIFF 3.0 or later, which will be called libtiff3.dll
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or libtiff.dll.
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GIF: requires libungif or giflib 4.1 or later, which will be
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called giflib4.dll, libungif4.dll or libungif.dll.
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SVG: not compiled into the binary release, but available if you
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compile Emacs yourself if you have development packages for all the
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dependencies. Requires many libraries from GTK and Gnome
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as well as the base librsvg library. Known to crash Emacs on many
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sample images.
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* XML support
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In order to support XML via libxml2 at runtime, a libxml2-enabled
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Emacs must be able to find the relevant DLLs during startup; failure
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to do so is not an error, but libxml2 features won't be available to
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the running session.
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You can get pre-built binaries (including any required DLL and the
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header files) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/.
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* Distributions in .tar.gz and .zip format
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Emacs is distributed primarily as source code in a large gzipped tar
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file (*.tar.gz). Because Emacs is quite large and therefore
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difficult to download over unreliable connections, the Windows
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binaries are provided in two combinations. The complete lisp source
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plus executables (bin), and executables only (barebin) for unpacking
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over the top of the source distribution. Formerly, we used the same
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.tar.gz format but since there are no longer legal problems with
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.zip files, and the latest versions of Windows support these
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natively, the Windows binaries of Emacs are now distributed as .zip
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files.
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* Distributions for non-x86 platforms
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Distributions for non-x86 platforms are no longer supplied. Older
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platforms supported by Windows NT no longer seem to be in demand,
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and Emacs is yet to be ported to 64 bit Windows platforms. If you
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are willing to help port Emacs 24 to 64 bit versions of Windows,
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your contribution will be welcome on the emacs-devel mailing list.
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* Unpacking distributions
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Ports of GNU gzip and GNU tar for handling the source distribution file
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format can be found in several places that distribute ports of GNU
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programs, for example:
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Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/
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GnuWin32: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
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Many other popular file compression utilities for Windows are also
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able to handle gzipped tar files. 7zip is one free Windows graphical
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program that is able to handle many archive formats.
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Open a command prompt (MSDOS) window. Decide on a directory in which
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to place Emacs. Move the distribution to that directory, and then
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unpack it as follows.
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If you have the gzipped tar version, use gunzip to uncompress the tar
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file on the fly, and pipe the output through tar with the "xvf" flags
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to extract the files from the tar file:
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% gunzip -c some.tar.gz | tar xvf -
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You may see messages from tar about not being able to change the
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modification time on directories, and from gunzip complaining about a
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broken pipe. These messages are harmless and you can ignore them. On
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Windows NT, unpacking tarballs this way leaves them in compressed
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form, taking up less space on disk. Unfortunately, on Windows 95 and
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98, a large temporary file is created, so it is better to use the
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djtarnt.exe program, which performs the equivalent operation in one
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step:
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% djtarnt -x some.tar.gz
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You may be prompted to rename or overwrite directories when using
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djtarnt: simply type return to continue (this is harmless).
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Zip files can be unpacked using unzip.exe from info-zip.org
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if you do not already have other tools to do this.
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% unzip some.zip
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The precompiled binaries can be unpacked using unzip.exe from info-zip.org
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if you do not already have other tools to do this.
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% unzip some.zip
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Once you have unpacked a precompiled distribution of Emacs, it should
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have the following subdirectories:
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bin etc info lisp site-lisp
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* Unpacking with other tools
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If you do use other utility programs to unpack the distribution, check
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the following to be sure the distribution was not corrupted:
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+ Be sure to disable the CR/LF translation or the executables will
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be unusable. Older versions of WinZip would enable this
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translation by default when unpacking .tar files. If you are
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using WinZip, disable it. (I don't have WinZip myself, and I do
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not know the specific commands necessary to disable it.)
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+ Check that filenames were not truncated to 8.3. For example, there
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should be a file lisp/abbrevlist.el; if this has been truncated to
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abbrevli.el, your distribution has been corrupted while unpacking
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and Emacs will not start.
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+ Check that filenames were not changed by your web-browser. Some
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proprietary web-browsers save .tar.gz files as .tar.tar. You might
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like to consider switching to a Free modern browser if your browser
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has this bug.
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+ I've also had reports that some older "gnuwin32" port of tar
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corrupts the executables. Use the latest version from the gnuwin32
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site or another port of tar instead.
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If you believe you have unpacked the distributions correctly and are
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still encountering problems, see the section on Further Information
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below.
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* Compiling from source
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If you would like to compile Emacs from source, download the source
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distribution, unpack it in the same manner as a precompiled
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distribution, and look in the file nt/INSTALL for detailed
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directions. It is recommended to use GCC 2.95 or later with MinGW
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support to compile the source. The port of GCC included in Cygwin
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is supported, but check the nt/INSTALL file if you have trouble
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since some builds of GNU make aren't supported.
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* Further information
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The Emacs on MS Windows FAQ is distributed with Emacs (info
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manual "efaq-w32"), and at
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http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/efaq-w32.html
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In addition to the FAQ, there is a mailing list for discussing issues
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related to the Windows port of Emacs. For information about the
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list, see this Web page:
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http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows
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To ask questions on the mailing list, send email to
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help-emacs-windows@gnu.org. (You don't need to subscribe for that.)
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To subscribe to the list or unsubscribe from it, fill the form you
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find at http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows as
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explained there.
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Another valuable source of information and help which should not be
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overlooked is the various Usenet news groups dedicated to Emacs.
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These are particularly good for help with general issues which aren't
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specific to the Windows port of Emacs. The main news groups to use
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for seeking help are:
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gnu.emacs.help
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comp.emacs
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There are also fairly regular postings and announcements of new or
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updated Emacs packages on this group:
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gnu.emacs.sources
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Enjoy!
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Most of this README was contributed by former maintainers Andrew Innes
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(andrewi@gnu.org) and Jason Rumney (jasonr@gnu.org).
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This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with GNU Emacs. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
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