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From: ralph@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Ralph Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Problems with GNUEMACS here in GERMANY
Keywords: gnuemacs
Message-ID: <795@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Aug 89 14:53:36 GMT
References: <1516@laura.UUCP> <821@sbsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ralph@ccs.brunel.ac.uk (Ralph Mitchell)
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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In article <821@sbsvax.UUCP> roeder@sbsvax.UUCP (Edgar Roeder) writes:
>In article <1516@laura.UUCP>, stoeck@unidocv..uucp (Joachim Peter Stoeck) writes:
>> 2. EMACS loads the file LOADUP.EL and got in trouble withit because this
>>    file is broken (the only thing to do with it is putting in the trash)
>>    I've looked at it at so many hebraic characters.
>
>This file *is not* broken. It's compiled code for emacs. 


Surely it should be called LOADUP.ELC if it is compiled ??  On my Sun
system here I have both LOADUP.EL and LOADUP.ELC.  LOADUP.EL is printable.
LOADUP.ELC is a binary...

Ralph Mitchell
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