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From: ewoods@hemel.bull.co.uk (Eoin Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: load paths and compile files
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Date: 31 Jan 91 09:56:19 GMT
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c162-dm@danube.Berkeley.EDU (byron c go) writes:

>I'm running Emacs version 18.54.1 and am wondering if there is any way to
>put load files in a directory other than the default.  My problem is that I
>do not have superuser privileges and would like to run gnus.  I have the
>files in my home directory and have byte-compiled nntp.el successfully but
>when i try to do the same to gnus.el, I get an error message saying 
>"Cannot open load file: nntp".  What should I do?

If you set the environment variable EMACSLOADPATH in your environment, then
Emacs will use it to initialise the internal variable "load-path".

Eoin.
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