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From: savela@tel2.vtt.fi (Markku Savela)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: MicroEmacs 3.10 bugs (?)
Message-ID: <1692@tel2.vtt.fi>
Date: 17 May 89 18:58:39 GMT
References: <May.9.14.15.06.1989.14175@caip.rutgers.edu> <2502@solo12.cs.vu.nl> <7254@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> <668@pitstop.West.Sun.COM> <964@amethyst.math.arizona.edu>
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Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
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In article <964@amethyst.math.arizona.edu>, steve@eros.ame.arizona.edu (Steve Cannon) writes:
>
> One bug I have noticed is (for IBM XT clone) that setting the HOME environ-
> mental variable works for everything except the help file. Anyone else have

    I think this was already a "feature" of the previous version. I finally
got so annoyed and looked it up. For some reason the second parameter of
"flook" is FALSE, when it looks for the help file. I didn't see any
reason for it, and changed it to TRUE and at least my version 3.9e
worked fine after this. The following diff is for that version, I don't
have 3.10.

*** bind.old
--- bind.new
**************
*** 23,29
  	bp = bfind("emacs.hlp", FALSE, BFINVS);
  
  	if (bp == NULL) {
! 		fname = flook(pathname[1], FALSE);
  		if (fname == NULL) {
  			mlwrite("[Help file is not online]");
  			return(FALSE);
--- 23,29 -----
  	bp = bfind("emacs.hlp", FALSE, BFINVS);
  
  	if (bp == NULL) {
! 		fname = flook(pathname[1], TRUE);
  		if (fname == NULL) {
  			mlwrite("[Help file is not online]");
  			return(FALSE);