This directory tree holds version 21.2 of XEmacs, the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. This version of XEmacs also runs on various Microsoft Windows platforms including MS Windows '95 and MS Windows NT and Cygwin. See the file `etc/NEWS' for information on new features and other user-visible changes since the last version of XEmacs. The file `INSTALL' in this directory says how to bring up XEmacs on Unix and Cygwin, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this directory. The file `PROBLEMS' contains information on many common problems that occur in building, installing and running XEmacs. See the file `nt/README' for instructions on building XEmacs for Microsoft Windows. Reports of bugs in XEmacs should be posted to the newsgroup comp.emacs.xemacs or sent to the mailing list xemacs@xemacs.org. See the "Bugs" section of the XEmacs manual for more information on how to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you can find and read that section using the Info files that come with XEmacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists relating to XEmacs and other GNU products. The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate XEmacs to the oddities of your processor and operating system. It will create a file named `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which helps automate the process of building and installing emacs. See INSTALL for more detailed information. The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to construct the `configure' script. Since XEmacs has configuration requirements that autoconf can't meet, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked configuration code and autoconf macros; it may be wise to avoid rebuilding `configure' from `configure.in' when possible. The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create `Makefile'. There are several subdirectories: `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the XEmacs Lisp interpreter and its primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing functions). `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for XEmacs (most everything else). `lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or with XEmacs, like movemail and etags. `etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files XEmacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead quote database. The contents of the `lisp', `info' and `man' subdirectories are architecture-independent too. `lwlib' holds the C code for the toolkit objects used by XEmacs. `info' holds the Info documentation tree for XEmacs. `man' holds the source code for the XEmacs info documentation tree. `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling XEmacs under MSDOG. See the file etc/MSDOS for more information. `nt' holds configuration files for compiling XEmacs under Microsoft Windows NT. The support for NT is very tentative right now.