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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
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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