Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!ucsd!ucsdhub!esosun!seismo!uunet!dalcs!armstrng From: armstrng@dalcs.UUCP (Stan Armstrong) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Microemacs under VMS Summary: User logical for Microemacs root directory Message-ID: <2939@dalcs.UUCP> Date: 25 Jun 88 11:30:30 GMT References: <561@sas.UUCP> Reply-To: armstrng@dalcs.UUCP (Stan Armstrong) Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Lines: 14 In article <561@sas.UUCP> sasblc@sas.UUCP (Brad Chisholm) writes: >I recently compiled Microemacs 3.9e on our VMS system so that I could use >the same editor no matter which system I'm on. Everything works great, >except it only seems to find its emacs.rc file when it's in the current >directory. I've tried putting it in my default login directory, and even >tried assigning a logical name to it (ASSIGN SYS$LOGIN:EMACS.RC EMACS.RC), >all to no avail. >============================================================================ >Brad L. Chisholm sasblc@sas.uucp ..!mcnc!rti!sas!sasblc The logical name you need to use to tell Microemacs where to look for files is EMACSLIB. Try: DEFINE EMACSLIB SYS$LOGIN