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- From: "raun kupiec" <raun.kupiec@channel1.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: microemacs on ibm-pc
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.968.2797@channel1>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 00:49:04 EST
- Reply-To: "raun kupiec" <raun.kupiec@channel1.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Channel 1 Communications
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- I've got a couple of questions about MicroEMACS 3.11c on the IBM-PC.
-
- I don't have a C compiler so I'm using the already compiled version
- available from SIMTEL20. The executable I'm using shows as:
-
- uemacs.exe 74,189 08-09-92
-
- 1. What's with the $home and $path environment variables mentioned in
- the manual? They're alluded to but not described. The reason I ask is
- that if I run MicroEMACS from any other directory, or from another disk
- it fails to find its home directory. I added my emacs.rc file onto the
- command line using the @ switch in a batch file, but I still get
- periodic failures as files are called in the various .cmd files. Do I
- have to trace down every file call and add in the specific directory, or
- can I set the $home variable somehow? Is this due to the program being
- incorrectly compiled originally? (Maybe the .h files weren't correctly
- specified for a DOS system?) This is especially important when EMACS is
- called from inside another program, such as my mail reader.
-
- 2. I have a more serious problem. When I access the help main menu, if
- I use the down arrow key the program hangs and I have to reboot. It
- didn't use to do this before I copied the updated 3.11c version of the
- executable into the directory. Is this a new bug, or could I have affected
- something in the .cmd files?
-
- Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-
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