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From: laplante@ocgy.ubc.ca (Denis Laplante (guest))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: emacs (.emacs under YP)
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Date: 13 Dec 90 20:22:56 GMT
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In article <9012120820.AA01430@cs.hut.fi>, visti@SAUNA.HUT.FI (Hannu
Visti) writes:
> 
> I compiled and installed emacs-18.55 to a personal iris (irix 3.3.1).
> Installation went normally, but this emacs cannot handle my
.emacs-file,
> it complains "error in init file" everytime I start it.
> 

I fixed that problem by making sure that /etc/passwd on every machine
contained my name.  It would appear that the YP version of passwd is
not consulted when looking for ~/.emacs .  
I placed the redundant entries after the '+' entry, so that those
programs
making normal use of YP will get the YP version.

Most likely there is a better way to fix this at compile time.