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A few days ago I pulled the latest GNU emacs compressed tar file to our
vax (running vms 5.2).  I decompressed it, un-tarred it, and proceeded to
follow the procedure outlined in the file: vmsdist.com.  I executed the
compile.com, link.com, complink.com, makedoc.com, and build.com files,
then moved/renamed temacs as described.  No problems were encountered
except warning messages from VAXC about variable names over 31 chars.

    When I try to use emacs 18.55 (having executed the emacs.com file
first), emacs does start, but the file I want to edit isn't there, and the
folowing message appears: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil.  Another
symptom of a problem is that when I type ^X-i to include a file, emacs
prompts me with SHOW DEF instead of the actual default directory.

    Can anyone help with a suggestion as to what might have gone wrong?
Are there things I can check, or redo?  Thanks in advance for any
comments, or ideas on this problem.

regards,

	ric steinberger
	ric@rml2.sri.com

BTW - I have GNU emacs 18.52 already installed on our system (obviously in
a totally different place).  I received that as a VMS-executable, and did
not have to build/install it myself.

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