> From: T400 <cau...@sysmatrix.net> > Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 11:47:11 -0500 > > I am trying to move from ver 24 to 25. I have an emacs.exe file in my > version 24.3 bin directory > > 03/17/2013 14:52 9,055,614 emacs.exe > > (working now for almost two years) > > and 2 .exe files in my new version 25.3 bin directory: > > 09/26/2017 16:04 99,358,230 emacs-25.3.exe > 09/26/2017 16:04 99,358,230 emacs.exe > > These were extracted using 7-zip without any problem but they seem too > large by a factor of 10.
The larger .exe files are not stripped of the debug info, that's why they are so large. Nothing to fear, when the program is loaded into memory, the debug info is not loaded, it is only read by a debugger. > Also the directory structure is different in this new emacs version. Is > this what it should look like?: Yes. > and can all this stuff in ~ > 01/06/2014 10:23 31,451 .emacs > 02/10/2015 03:41 204 .newsrc > 02/10/2015 03:41 1,020 .newsrc.eld > 02/10/2015 03:15 913 .newsrc.eld~ > 02/10/2015 03:15 189 .newsrc~ > 02/10/2015 02:46 63,180 .nnmail-cache > 03/14/2011 22:35 2,116 .notes > 03/12/2011 21:32 1,164 .notes~ > 09/28/2012 11:16 692 .recentf > 09/28/2012 08:29 692 .recentf~ > > remain there unchanged? Yes, in general. You might bump into some compatibility problems, but they should be minor, and can be resolved by using the new/changed features. > p.s. Why are there two identical emacs.exe files in \bin with different > names? So that, when you install the next version, the emacs.exe gets overwritten by the newer one, but the emacs-25.3.exe does not, and you can still invoke the older version by its versioned name, if you need (e.g., to compare behavior of 2 versions).