Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!sbsvax!roeder From: roeder@sbsvax.UUCP (Edgar Roeder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Problems with GNUEMACS here in GERMANY Summary: you are right, but ... Keywords: gnuemacs, loadup.el or loadup.elc Message-ID: <831@sbsvax.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 89 12:15:03 GMT References: <1516@laura.UUCP> <821@sbsvax.UUCP> <795@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> Organization: Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, W-Germany Lines: 16 In article <795@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>, ralph@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Ralph Mitchell) writes: > Surely it should be called LOADUP.ELC if it is compiled ?? On my Sun > You are right, but i wanted to change the emacs source only where it was ABSOLUTELY necessary. On systems where the compile time switch CANNOT_DUMP is defined, emacs constructs the following command at startup time: load "loadup.el" The load-routine tries then to load "loadup.el.elc" "loadup.el.el" and "loadup.el". On the st because it truncates longer filenames the first request is served. The original source of emacs should better use 'load "loadup"' but as i said ... > Ralph Mitchell - Edgar