Clarify info about long filenames on MSDOS-like systems.
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@ -544,7 +544,13 @@ It is important to understand that the runtime support of long file
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names by the Emacs binary is NOT affected by the LFN setting during
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compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always
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support long file names on Windows 95 no matter what was the setting
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of LFN at compile time.
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of LFN at compile time. However, if you compiled with LFN disabled
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and want to enable LFN support after Emacs was already built, you need
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to make sure that the support files in the lisp, etc and info
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directories are called by their original long names as found in the
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distribution. You can do this either by renaming the files manually,
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or by extracting them from the original distribution archive with
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djtar after you set LFN=y in the environment.
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To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command:
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(This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on
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your system.) There are a few files in the archive whose names
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collide with other files under the 8.3 DOS naming. If you have set
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LFN=n, djtar will ask you to supply alternate names for these files;
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you can just press `Enter' when this happens (which makes djtar skip
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these files) because they aren't required for MS-DOS.
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collide with other files under the 8.3 DOS naming. On native MSDOS,
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or if you have set LFN=n on Win95, djtar will ask you to supply
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alternate names for these files; you can just press `Enter' when this
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happens (which makes djtar skip these files) because they aren't
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required for MS-DOS.
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When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be
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created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install
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