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- From: jsteele@netcom.com (John Steele)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Re: microemacs on ibm-pc
- Message-ID: <yybn8gn.jsteele@netcom.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 18:26:11 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.968.2797@channel1>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- In <1992Aug26.968.2797@channel1> "raun kupiec" <raun.kupiec@channel1.com> writes:
-
- >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.
-
- You need to set your home environment variable to tell uemacs where it's
- emacs.rc and .cmd files are located. A simple set HOME=\blah will do it.
-
- >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?
-
- This may be a side effect of not having HOME set correctly. Try it.
- Or it may be a bad help file...
-
- >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Hope this does,
- John
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