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Date:	Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:30:24 +0200
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
Subject:	DJGPP port of Emacs 23
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The DJGPP port of GNU Emacs was unmaintained for several years, which
caused it to bit-rot, although the latest official release 22.3 still
builds out of the box.  However, the DJGPP build of the development
version in CVS was broken for quite some time and would not even
compile, let alone run.

Recently, I have resumed maintaining the DJGPP Emacs, and in
particular the CVS code now builds and works for me.  Bootstrap (which
is necessary if you build the CVS version, see below) also works.
Kudos to Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com> who helped me lately to make it
work reasonably well on Vista (my own experience is mainly on XP SP2).

If there are still users on this forum who run DJGPP tools on DOS or
Windows platforms, I would encourage you to try the CVS version now.
This is because Emacs 23 will be released soon, and I would like to
have it tested by as many DJGPP users as possible, to find and weed
out any remaining problems.  The development version is quite stable,
and can be used for everyday work without fear of frequent crashes.

You can find the instructions for getting the development version of
Emacs from CVS here:

   http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs

After downloading the sources, read the file msdos/INSTALL for build
instructions.

Thanks in advance!

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