Re: emacs won't start interactively

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 03:27:24 +0000
> From: Joe_Trivers--- via help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> running just emacs-26.1\bin\emacs returns almost immediately with no output, 
> and so does emacs-26.1\bin\emacs -nw.

What if you type "emacs-26.1\bin\emacs -Q", does that also exit
immediately?

> First I downloaded and unpacked emacs-26.2-i686.zip from a mirror and it 
> didn't work. I then tried emacs-26.2-x86_64.zip emacs-26.1-x86_64.zip from 
> the ftp.gnu.org site, as well as the no-deps version with 
> emacs-26-x86_64-deps unpacked on top. None of them worked. I moved the 
> unpacked tree from <me>\Downloads to c:\GNU but that didn't seem to help 
> either.

How did you unpack the zip files, exactly?  Please describe what
utility/program you used to unpack, what did you type/click/select
etc., step by step.