RE: [h-e-w] latest prebuilt Emacs for Win

[Victor Kirk]

>> Thanks, Stephe, I downloaded  emacs-21.3.tar.gz . The Readme for Ver. 
>> 21.3, Jan 27, 2004,  suggests that djtarnt.exe can be used in place of 
>> using both gunzip.exe and tar.exe, to unpack the file. I was unable to 
>> reach the /utilities site at gnu  (505)  to download djtarnt.exe, but 
>> did find it at another site. When I try to apply djtarnt.exe to the 
>> emacs file, it does not completely unpack but leaves the file 
>> emacs-21.3-bin-i386.tar . This suggests that there is still another
>> step required to read the .tar file. What am I missing?    Fletcher

> I use either Winzip (www.winzip.com - I paid $50 years ago, and have
> been getting free updates ever since; well worth it) or Cygwin
> (www.cygwin.com) 'tar zxf <file>' to unpack .tar.gz files.

Or you can get native windows ports of GNU tar, gzip + and a host
of others (including grep) from 

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/


Regards, Vic
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