Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!arizona!arizona.edu!penny.telcom.arizona.edu!paul From: paul@aqua.ccit.arizona.edu (Paul Sanchez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: detex Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 21:43:02 GMT References: <1991Apr21.184321.26581@athena.mit.edu><1991Apr24.211421.19343@zaphod.mps.ohio -state.edu> <1517@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Distribution: world,local Organization: Systems & Industrial Engineering, U of AZ Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: aqua.ccit.arizona.edu In-reply-to: simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu's message of 25 Apr 91 18:18:35 GMTLines: 16 i think i'm the one who triggered this whole detex thread. i finally got everything working, thanks to kim and robert olson . as has been noted, detex needs to be compiled with -fwritable-strings to work on the next. ispell compiles fine from the distribution placed on sonata. i still was having trouble getting ispell/detex to work in emacs. what finally fixed it for me was removing the line "(setq process-connection-type nil)" from my .emacs initialization. this had worked its way in on another system, and screws things up (at least for me) on the next. thanks again to everyone who helped. --paul