emacs install problem

Christopher Faylor cgf-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Aug 13 10:14:00 GMT 2002


On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:57:56AM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote:
>fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:
>
>>~> emacs
>>bash: emacs: command not found
>>
>>Yes. I got this with 21.2-1 and I'm still getting it with the recently
>>available 21.2-3. Hard to tell what's going on during setup, but it doesn't
>>seem to me that emacs gets installed at all. The progress bar flashes for 
>>an
>>instant and then it's zooming on to the next thing. Most 'large' components
>>such as this one take a measurable time ... dunno. Totally perplexed.
>
>I wonder if the lack of a .exe suffix on the emacs binary is causing this?
>
>What OS are y'all running?

Is this really happening?  That would DEFINITELY cause a problem.  Windows 9x
derivatives can't run programs unless they have a .exe extension.

cgf

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