stoeck@unidocv..uucp (Joachim Peter Stoeck) (08/02/89)
Hello everybody and a special hello to all GNUEMACS-User. Please help me. In comp.binaeries.atari.st was a version of GNUEMACS posted. Because of the enthuastical echo in comp.sys.atari.st I got a copy of it and unpacked it. But I have some troubles with it: 1. In the directory 'bin' are the files emacs and etacs, but no .prg or .tos-files. So there are no executables. I renamed this files to emacs.prg and etags.prg and started it. It seems to work, but was this correct?? --------- --------- 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. So has someone a LOADUP.EL without ERRORS and could it mail to me??? -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. After loading emacs I can't see the cursor and I can't use the cursor- keys. Is this o.k. or whould it be o.k. if I hat an correct working LOADUP.EL. What shall I do? Could someone who have a working copy of GNUEEMACS or know something about the programm try to answere the questions and mail to me a copy of LOADUP.EL. I whould be very glad. Thanks in advance Joachim Stoeck ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joachim Stoeck | mail: Universitaet Dortmund | stoeck@unidocv.uucp West Germany | -------------------------------------------------------------------------
roeder@sbsvax.UUCP (Edgar Roeder) (08/04/89)
In article <1516@laura.UUCP>, stoeck@unidocv..uucp (Joachim Peter Stoeck) writes: > Hello everybody and a special hello to all GNUEMACS-User. Hello ! > But I have some troubles with it: > 1. In the directory 'bin' are the files emacs and etacs, but no .prg > or .tos-files. So there are no executables. I renamed this files to > emacs.prg and etags.prg and started it. It seems to work, but was this > correct?? --------- > --------- Yes this *is* correct. Sorry, but i am using commandline interpreters on unix and on my st. So i did not worry about file extensions. Perhaps you should name them .TTP (they take parameters and are no GEM programs). > 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. I know about the error message if you set an environment var $USER (that's because i got code from our vax and have not changed everything for the st) but that should not cause any problems (beside the message). > 3. After loading emacs I can't see the cursor and I can't use the cursor- > keys. Is this o.k. or whould it be o.k. if I hat an correct working > LOADUP.EL. What shall I do? You should see a cursor - even if you ommit loading loadup.el (try 'emacs -nl'). It would be correct if you named the file something other than .PRG or .APP. But you must have \etc\termcap on the current drive where you are starting emacs. Otherwise it would not know about the escape-sequences needed for cursor-positioning or the escape-sequences sent by the function and cursor keys. > Joachim Stoeck - Edgar
Joachim.Peter.Stoeck@mamab.FIDONET.ORG (Joachim Peter Stoeck) (08/06/89)
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ralph@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Ralph Mitchell) (08/08/89)
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 -- JANET: ralph@uk.ac.brunel.cc ARPA: ralph%cc.brunel.ac.uk@cwi.nl UUCP: ...ukc!cc.brunel!ralph PHONE: +44 895 74000 x2561 "There's so many different worlds, so many different Suns" - Dire Straits "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" - Salvor Hardin, Foundation
roeder@sbsvax.UUCP (Edgar Roeder) (08/10/89)
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