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- From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Problems with extfs
- Message-ID: <5470@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 10:56:49 GMT
- References: <Bs5tqK.BMr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
- Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester
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- In article <Bs5tqK.BMr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth) writes:
- >also, while in /usr/tmp, a emacs README (when README exists) results in emacs
- >not finding the file and starting with a new file (apparently because emacs
- >cannot find the file). However, emacs /usr/tmp/README works just fine.
-
- This sort of problem usually occurs when there is a variable PWD which is
- not updated by the shell. It may be that PWD is created and not updated
- by tcsh. I seem to recall that there is a patch to emacs to avoid this
- problem. You can also make sure that PWD is updated when you change
- directories.
-
- -- Owen
- Le Blanc@mcc.ac.uk
-