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Subject: execcmd.el and generate.el
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Date: 27 Jul 89 13:21:20 GMT
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on 24 Jul 89 13:51:06 GMT,
Kyle Jones <rti!talos!kjones@mcnc.ORG> said:
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Kyle> Bud Boman writes:
Kyle>  > I've noticed execcmd.el and another recent posting, generate.el are
Kyle>  > incompatible. That is, while execcmd.elc is loaded generate.elc
Kyle>  > doesn't work.
Kyle>  > 
Kyle>  > Has anyone else noticed (and, hopefully, fixed) this? 

Kyle> I tried generate.el with execcmd.el loaded and without, and it didn't
Kyle> work either way.  The error message both times was:

Kyle>         bad arg to rev-sub-list

Hmmm . . . "'Curiouser and curiouser,' said Alice."

You're right. Closer investigation on my part shows that generate.el
works (and is compatible with execcmd.elc -- scratch my original
request) but generate.elc doesn't work (with or without execcmd.elc)
and gives the error message:

       Wrong type argument:char-or-string-p \^J

at the point of writing the documentation string.

Can anyone explain this? What does byte compilation do, exactly? (Or,
at least what is it **supposed** to do, assuming no bugs?)


			Bud Boman
			United Technologies Research Center
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			ecb@utrccm.smc.utc.com