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From: victor@uicadb.csl.uiuc.edu (Victor Ma)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: starting emacs
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.195551.23647@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 19:55:51 GMT
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Reply-To: victor@uicadb.csl.uiuc.edu (Victor Ma)
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folks:

Here's a quicky for anyone...  

When I start emacs in a subdirectory,
it looks for the file in my home
directory, which, of course, is the 
wrong place to look.  How come 
emacs doesn't look first in my current
directory like all other programs that
I use.  Do I have to set a special 
shell variable or something?

thanks,

victor