INSTALL-NT

- Make sure that you read the README file first.

DISCLAIMER: The records functionality on windows has only been tested on
            Windows 2000 running the Windows native port of Xemacs version
            21.1.13. Your milage may vary.

For running records on Windows, do the following:

1. Download cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com

2. Make sure you have the HOME environment variable set. This variable
should not have trailing slashes or backslashes. In Windows 2000,
environment variables are set by right clicking "Properties" on the
"My Computer" icon, then clicking "Advanced -> Environment Variables".

3. Run the cygwin shell program, a.k.a, bash.

4. Make a symbolic link from your xemacs.exe executable to /usr/bin/xemacs.
The xemacs.exe executable will probably be located in an area such as 
//C/Program Files/Xemacs/XEmacs-21.1.13/i386/-pc-win32/xemacs.exe

Thus ln -s "//C/Program Files/Xemacs/XEmacs-21.1.13/i386/-pc-win32/xemacs.exe" /usr/bin/xemacs

Thats it. Now go to the INSTALL-UNIX file or the info file.

NOTES and (potential) BUGS: 

1. The native port of xemacs and cygwin treat file paths quite
differently. In particular, xemacs doesn't understand file paths
generated by cygwin. The recordsadmin program goes to some trouble to
fix this problem (Look at cygwin_translate_path). However, this
functionality has not be well tested and it is very possible that
records won't work on other Windows ports of emacs.

2. Records uses cygwin for programs such as make and perl. Cygwin
programs are not used after records is installed.

3. If you have problems during (or after) installation, fix the paths
in ~/.emacs-records by hand (however much the file may claim that you
shouldn't do it!). Then run make again.