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From: WPR0986@TNTECH.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: RE: MicroEmacs under VMS
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Date: 29 Jun 88 23:19:00 GMT
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> From:         Brad Chisholm 
> Subject:      Microemacs under VMS
>
> 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.
>
> Any suggestions? Without it I only get 24 out of 32 lines on my TEK terminal,
> and I miss my cursor and function key bindings!
>

Try putting this in the file EPATH.H in place of the code
that is already there for VMS.  This will make uEmacs look in
your login directory for the EMACS.RC file.  It also looks
there for the EMACS.HLP file.  You can change the path to what
ever directory location you want for the .HLP file.  You probably
only want one copy of that on the system.  Make it public and
hardcode the path to it so that everyone can get to it from
inside uEmacs.  I hope this fixes your problem.

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#if     VMS
{
        "sys$login:emacs.rc",
        "sys$login:emacs.hlp",
        "",
        "sys$sysdevice:[vmstools]"
};
#endif
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