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- From: rpg@cs.tulane.edu (Robert Goldman)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Subject: help under VMS emacs
- Message-ID: <RPG.92Aug20105915@clones.cs.tulane.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 16:59:15 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.tulane.edu
- Reply-To: rpg@cs.tulane.edu (Robert Goldman)
- Distribution: gnu
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Tulane University
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- I am trying to get gnu installed under (ugh) VAX VMS so that some
- students of mine can use it. I can't get the "help for key" command
- to work. The problem is that that command wants to open file
- doc-18.57.14 Unfortunately, VMS renames this file to DOC-18.57;14,
- turning the 14 into its own kind of version number, which emacs
- does not understand. Even more unfortunately, the person who is
- installing emacs is not even a user, let alone someone to go
- grovelling over the file-manipulation stuff.
-
- Can anybody offer any suggestions about this? patches? I would be
- eternally grateful, as would my students, bless their pointy little
- heads.
-
- Best,
- R
-