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Article #98966Re: bug in emacs help?
From: dyck
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 1991 23:03
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 1991 23:03
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Summary: summary of replies In my gnu.emacs.bug message of 14 Jan 91 22:32:00 GMT, I wrote: > % gemacs -q > C-h C-h C-h > The screen shows: > ----------- > o control of other variables) > when it would not result in changing the owner or group of the file; > that is, for files which are owned by you and whose group matches > the default for a new file created there by you. > This variable is relevant only if backup-by-copying is nil. > ----------- I got 8 replies, all agreeing that the etc/DOC file was out of sync with the gemacs executable and that the solution was to rebuild. Most guessed that the DOC file was out-of-date (left over from a previous build), but in fact it was the executable that was out-of-date. (The up-to-date executable hadn't been installed properly.) Thanks to: tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) rms@ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) Andy Norman <ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com> trinkle@cs.purdue.edu danj1@ihlpa.att.com (Daniel Jacobson) eirik@theory.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Eirik Fuller) loic@axis-design.fr (Loic Dachary) Stephen Gildea <gildea@expo.lcs.mit.edu> Michael Dyck Centre for Systems Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada dyck@cs.sfu.ca
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,6200f3ff102b100b X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-01-22 15:03:00 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!CS.SFU.CA!dyck From: dyck@CS.SFU.CA Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Re: bug in emacs help? Message-ID: <9101222303.AA16630@alnilam.cs.sfu.ca> Date: 22 Jan 91 23:03:00 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 34 Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu