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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
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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