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From: dprmjc@inetg1.Arco.Com (M. J. Cole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: emacs
Message-ID: <390@inetg1.arco.com>
Date: 13 Dec 90 20:42:39 GMT
References: <9012120820.AA01430@cs.hut.fi>
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To: visti@sauna.hut.fi
cc: dprmjc


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).
> ...
> it complains "error in init file" everytime I start it.
> 

Are you using Yellow Pages (YP)?  I encountered this problem when we installed YP.

Try relinking  with the library : -lsun.  See the (3Y) section of the man pages
for intro(3). 

If this doesn't work, create a "dummy" entry at the bottom of the password
file.  Like so...

root:XXXX:0:0:Super-User:/:/bin/csh
..
.. lots of entries
..
+::0:0::
dprmjc:XXXX:8888:42:M. J. Cole, PRC-D3234, 754-6857:/usr/people/dprmjc:/bin/csh




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