				OEMACS
		       Release 4.1 (BETA RELEASE)
			    August 22, 1993

This is "oemacs", a version of GNU Emacs V19.19 that works within MSDOS
or an MS Windows DOS box.  NOTE THAT THIS IS STILL A BETA-TEST RELEASE.
This was supposed to be a non-beta release, but too many new features
were added for this to be considered a non-beta release.


***** IMPORTANT *****
     With the exception of the DOS/4GW DOS extender (dos4gw.exe) and the
support file (wemu387.386), this distribution falls under the GNU Public
License; for copying information, see the file called "copying".  The
32-bit DOS extender, "DOS/4GW" (dos4gw.exe), is copyrighted by Rational
Systems, Inc:

		Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1993
	This DOS extender may be redistributed as part of a program
	compiled with WATCOM C/386.  It may not be redistributed as a
	separate, standalone entity.

The extender support file, "wemu387.386" belongs to WATCOM Systems,
Inc., and can, basically, be distributed only as a part of a program
compiled using WATCOM C/386 (see the WATCOM C/386 licensing agreement
for the exact details):

		Copyright (c) 1991-1993 WATCOM Systems, Inc.
	The file "wemu387.386" may be redistributed only as part of a
	program compiled with WATCOM C/386.  It may not be redistributed
	as a separate, standalone entity.


***** ALSO IMPORTANT *****
     THIS IS STILL A BETA RELEASE.  Please do not upload this version to
Simtel20.  I plan on uploading the next non-beta release to Simtel20
(assuming that the Simtel20 maintainers are willing), and I do not want
to annoy the Simtel20 maintainers by uploading a new version so soon
after this one.


     I'd like to thank Chris Boucher (C.C.Boucher@southhampton.ac.uk)
for making the changes necessary to get OEmacs Revision 2 working
under DJGPP, as well as the ones needed to get it working under
DESQview/X, and Michael Ernst (mernst@theory.lcs.mit.edu) for
providing an ftp site for beta-test bits.

     While I would have liked to have used the name "demacs" or
"demacs2", I didn't, because I don't want people thinking that this
version is compatible with demacs.  For reasons of ease-of-use and
ease-of-installation, this version is partially incompatible with
demacs.  In particular, the two versions cannot share the same "_emacs"
file (the "_emacs" file is the MSDOS equivalent of ".emacs").  See the
file "readme.dos" for more details on the differences between oemacs and
demacs.

     For a list of bugs/problems and features, see the file
"readme.dos".  NOTE: the DJGPP-compiled version needs a special
version of GO32, to get proper Ctrl-Break checking.  One is provided
in this distribution (it's called "emacs-19.19/bin/go32.exe"), and
the sources are in the .zip archive "go32oe2.zip".

     See the file "readme.dvx", for DESQview/X-specific information.

     For installation instructions, see the file called "install.dos".

     To get an idea where OEmacs is going, see the file "todo.dos".

     Note that the file called "problems" talks about Emacs problems for
non-MSDOS (i.e., Unix) machines.  See the file "readme.dos" for a list
of problems under MSDOS.

     Unfortunately, compilation instructions are still not yet
included.  I hope to write compilation documentation sometime in the
future.  This version should compile using either the DJGPP or WATCOM
C/386 C compilers.

     If you use the DJGPP compiler, you need release 1.10 or later, as
this is the first version that supports DPMI.  Also note that you need a
special version of the GO32 extender, one that has special support for
Ctrl-Break checking; the sources to this special version can be found in
the .zip file, "go32oe.zip".

     If you use WATCOM C/386, you need version 9.01E or later; version
9.01D or earlier will not work (also note that you need the 32-bit
"WATCOM C/386" compiler; the "WATCOM C" compiler -- a 16-bit compiler --
will NOT work).

     Everything that you need to recompile OEmacs is here, except for
the DJGPP or WATCOM C/386 C compilers, ndmake, and the DV/X X11
libraries and include files (if needed).
