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From: templon@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Fix for VMS GNU Emacs when user has PWD defined as symbol
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Date: 4 Feb 90 02:34:15 GMT
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Hi,

Someone here (or on comp.os.vms, I don't remember) posted a fix to
this problem lately. For reminders, the problem is Emacs getting the
wrong directory default (in the minibuffer after C-x C-f, etc.) if a
user starts up Emacs and has the global DCL symbol PWD defined (as
opposed to undefined.) Killing Emacs, doing DELETE/SYM/GLO PWD and
restarting Emacs fixes the problem, but someone had some code segment
which allowed one to keep the definition.

Could someone repost this? I let it slip by, thinking we would never
have anyone define PWD here, and the next week.... sheesh.

Oh yeah, VMS GNU emacs 18.55, VMS 4.7.

			Jeff