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>> Recent article(s) brought up using csh aliases; one person mentioned
>> that they use `alias mail emacs -e mail'.

Remember that GNU emacs runs on various operating systems, some of
which aren't Unix.  The place for command-line info like this is the
manual page, which is distributed in etc/emacs.1.

Looking in the above, we find that the -f switch calls a function.  In
the source (startup.el, routine comand-line-1), we find that the
switches -e, -f and -funcall all do the same thing.

There are also interesting functions to help when you need to create
the byte-compiled (.elc) libraries and the documentation files before
you have a dumped emacs.  Check out batch-byte-compile and
batch-info-validate.

/jr
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