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Re: newbie install question
From: |
Richard V. Molen |
Subject: |
Re: newbie install question |
Date: |
18 Nov 2002 12:07:27 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Marty Landman <marty@face2interface.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I d/l'd emacs-20.7.tar.gz from download.com, wanting to install this
> on a W95 box. When I open it using Iceows I get emacs-20.7.tar and
> when I open that file using Iceows I get 2,051 files totalling 52.1 MB.
>
> After selecting them all and attempting to extract it goes so slowly
> that it is not practical to do. Is there something I'm doing wrong
> here? How long should it take to extract emacs from the windows binary?
My guess is that iceows does not properly support GNU zip.
Here is a wonderful FAQ on getting started with Emacs on M$ platforms.
www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/big.html
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