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From: sksircar@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Subrata Kumar Sircar)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Getting hostname on status line.
Message-ID: <11035@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 23 Oct 89 20:37:05 GMT
References: <1612@fredonia.UUCP> <8910032315.AA10699@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> <688@corona.pb>
Reply-To: sksircar@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Subrata Kumar Sircar)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <688@corona.pb> michael@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Schmidt) writes:
>But that doesn't work from within .emacs. Could anybody comment how to
>get the hostname in the status line from .emacs?

Actually, how does one use a .emacs file?  Is there an option to invoke
emacs with?  I tried using 'emacs -l .emacs' which is what my local man
page tells me but that didn't work...

Please reply by mail as I'm sure most people are sneering at my inexperience.

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