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Rather nasty bug in emacs and epoch

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From: Simon Rademacher
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 1991 04:48
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I've come across a rather nasty bug.  It shows up in the following
configurations:
Gnuemacs 18.56 under SunOS 4.1 on Sparc
Epoch 3.2 under SunOS 4.1 on Sparc and 3/60

It does not occur in gnuemacs 18.56 under Dynix (using s-bsd4-2.h) on a
Sequent Balance.  (Why!?)

No other configurations have been tried.

Now the bug:
Any files passed to gnuemacs or epoch on the command line are looked for
in the home directory, not the working directory.  For instance, say I
have a directory "foo" in my home directory with file "bar" in it.  My working
directory is "foo."  When I type "xemacs bar" or "epoch bar", they come up and
claim to be editing a new file.  Looking at the buffer list, I see that they
are editing "bar" in my home directory.  Indeed, if a "bar" exists in my
home directory, they read that one, not the one from "foo."

Of course, once emacs is started, I can use emacsclient in directory "foo"
and "bar" is correctly loaded.

So, is there a patch?  A newer version?  Any help appreciated.
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=          Simon Rademacher           =
= rademach%tramp@boulder.colorado.edu =
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From: rademach@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Simon Rademacher)
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Subject: Rather nasty bug in emacs and epoch
Summary: files on command line open in home directory
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