[h-e-w] Re: Fwd: Installing emacs

[Olive]

Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
> Power archiver probably did the wrong thing.  My guess is it did the gunzip
> only and left you with a tar file.   It really is better to use gunzip and tar
> from the command line rather than attempting to use the windows tools.
>
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.2.4.msdos.exe
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.12.msdos.exe

 think this is a MS-DOS version. These utilities will not handle long 
filenames and will corrupt the software. Use the utilities found at:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/windows/utilities/i386/