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problem installing oemacs in MS-DOS

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From: Blake Beller
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 1994 05:33
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To whom it may concern,
	If I am emailing the wrong people, I apologize, but ask that you
complete this paragraph.  I am trying to install oemacs for MS-DOS and get
an error when trying to run emacs.  I looked and looked for who to email
with problems but didn't really find an email address.  This distribution
comes with some of the standard GNU "copying" and other such files in which
I found this address.  If I should be talking to someone else, please just
send me the address of who that is, and again apologize for the
inconvenience.  If you *are* the right people, please read on.
	Two days ago I downloaded oe41gbin.zip and oe41min.zip from the
Simtel archives at oak.oakland.edu.  I just pkunzipped the files with the -d
option into the c:\ directory and the appropriate emacs-19.19 directory and
it's bin\ and etc\ ... directories were made.  I made no changes to the
emacs.bat file (I am running MS DOS version 6.22) and then put the bat file
into a directory in my path.  When I ran "emacs" I simply got a message:

cannot exec go32.exe

right away and nothing more.  The install.dos says that the proper go32.exe
binary is included with the precompiled djgpp distribution.  Any idea why it
won't execute?

My machine is a 486/66 DX2 with 8 megs of RAM, PCI #9-GXE 64-bit video card,
773 Meg EIDE Conner drive.

Things I've tried:
1) pkunzip -t oe41gbin.zip and the "go32.exe" tests ok.
2) typing "go32.exe" in the emacs-19.19\bin directory and it tells me the
version number and something about a copyright and tells me that the proper
syntax is go32.exe [ program [[options]] or something like that
3) I am running QEMM 7.04 and knows that it can cause funky problems so I
did a "clean boot" by holding down the shift key so my config.sys and
autoexec.bat were bypassed...the same problem still occurred when running
emacs.bat.  

I wish that i knew what else to try.  Emacs works wonderfully on my Linux
partition, and under AIX, SunOS, Solaris 2.3, and AUX in my various UN*X
accounts.  
I give you thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give.

Blake Beller
-- 
  "CS Majors:  We do more after 11pm than most people do all day."
                   --  vaps0de@prism.gatech.edu
                      Name:  Blake Beller                        
       Email:  beller@scri.fsu.edu beller@cs.fsu.edu  
       beller@freenet.scri.fsu.edu bbeller@ulibnet.mtsu.edu
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Subject: problem installing oemacs in MS-DOS
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