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24.4; nt/README.W32: obsolete snippet

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From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18840-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18840: 24.4; nt/README.W32: obsolete snippet
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:55:21 +0100

>> -  Along with this file should be four subdirectories (bin, libexec,
>> -  share, and var).
>> +  The binary distribution has these top-level directories:
>> +
>> +  + bin: <explain briefly its contents>
>> +
>> +  + libexec: <explain briefly its contents>
>> +
>> +  + share: <explain briefly its contents>
>> +
>> +  + var: <explain briefly its contents>
>
> This is OK (and I don't think we must describe the contents of each
> subdirectory, but I will certainly not object to it).

Ok.  (I didn't describe them because I wouldn't know how, especially
with "share" and "var").

>>  * Setting up Emacs
>>
>> -  To install Emacs, simply unpack all the files into a directory of
>> +  To install Emacs, simply unpack the top-level directories into a directory of
>>    your choice.
>
> None of this is accurate.  Instead, we should say
>
>   To install Emacs, simply unpack the binary zip into a directory of
>   your choice.

Ok.  (I changed "zip" with "package" to make it more neutral wrt the
compression format)

Committed & closing this bug.

Thank you.

-- 
Dani Moncayo

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