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From: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: microEmacs 3.7i (emacs.rc?)
Message-ID: <6781@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 88 14:51:10 GMT
References: <1072@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Reply-To: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Daniel Lawrence)
Organization: Purdue University
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Keywords: micro Emacs
Summary: MicroEMACS startup behavior

In article <1072@sbcs.sunysb.edu> lean@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Lean L. Loh) writes:
>
>I have a question about MicroEmacs 3.7i (the one I got from James Turner
>which supports the 50-line mode in monchrome).  Whenever I invoke emacs.ttp,
>the startup file, emacs.rc, is read from the current directory if it exits.
>
>Say I have both emacs.ttp and emacs.rc in directory d:
>If I invoke d:\emacs.ttp from path e:, the startup file emacs.rc is never
>read.  Is there any way to tell MicroEmacs 3.7i to read the startup file
>from a particular directory, like say setting an environment variable or
>invoking emacs.ttp with some -flag option??

	To my knowledge, there are no "built in" environment variables
in GEMDOS.  Under the MWC shell, or Micro-C Shell MicroEMACS can look
down the PATH environment, but invoked from the desktop, it has no such
option. If you still have source, look in the header file EPATH.H and
add the folder you keep your startup file into the list for the atari.
If not, make a /bin folder in the root of the disk you are invoking
emacs from and put the .rc file there.

	Also, what may be of use to you, is upgrading to a more recent
version of MicroEMACS.  Such is available from my BBS system (listed
below) [version 3.9i] and it does support the 50 line mode again (set
$sres to DENSE).

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