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From: rlee@deimos.ads.com (Richard Lee)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Emacs on the SG Iris
Summary: startup and terminal characteristics problems
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Date: 5 Nov 88 00:28:54 GMT
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Reply-To: rlee@ads.com (Richard Lee)
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mtn. View, CA
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Our Computer Facilities folks have installed gnuemacs 18.52 on our
Silicon Graphics Iris 4D (OS 3.0).  It was apparently done by copying it
from one of our Suns and recompiling, with a small amount of hacking the
source to get it up and running.

We have a couple problems with it.  First, starting up emacs results in
an "Error in init file" message.  This error occurs whether or not the
user has a .emacs file.  As a result, the .emacs file (if any) does not
get loaded.  However, emacs -l .emacs does load it, and everything seems
to be fine despite the error message!  Any ideas?

The second problem lies with the terminal characteristics -- in
particular, the fact that the Backspace key generates a ^H.  We can
patch that by setting the keyboard-translate-table in each user's
.emacs.  I assume that the "right" fix is to get ahold of an
iris-ansi.el file to stick in the term directory.  Anyone know where I
can find such a thing?

Also, is there anything like the sun-mouse code for the Iris?

Thanks for any help.


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