From: covici AT ccs DOT covici DOT com (John Covici)
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Subject: Re: home directory/start up file name for emacs
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:54:21 -0500
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on Wed, 24 Dec 1997 08:22:33 GMT Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> in
<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 971224102216 DOT 16655B-100000 AT is> wrote:
>
>On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, John Covici wrote:
>
>> What is the correct home directory and the name of the startup file for
>> emacs under djgpp?
>>
>> I have my home environment variable set and I tried emacs and .emacs,
>> but to no avail.
>
>It's all in the docs and more than once: the file README.dos mentions
>it, and the Emacs on-line manual tells you exactly where Emacs looks
>for the init file, with and without HOME set, in the MS-DOS chapter,
>in the section "File Names on MS-DOS".
>
>Sometimes I wonder why do I go to all that trouble writing and
>rewriting the DJGPP-specific docs if nobody is reading them.

There is no readme.dos in the msdos directory in the 20.2 source
distribution.  In fact I just looked and I can't find it anywhere.  Is
it missing?

Thanks for your help.
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         John Covici
          covici AT ccs DOT covici DOT com