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In article <1991Jan25.050215.10623@csn.org> rademach@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Simon Rademacher) writes:

   In article <9101241631.AA17699@acf4.NYU.EDU> lixj@acf4.NYU.EDU (Xiaojian Li) writes:
   >I recently compiled Xemasc18.56.1 on IBM/RS6000 320. It works well under
   >ksh, but seems to have trouble under csh: the starting dir is always ~/
   >no matter which directory I invoke xemacs from. Does anybody have the
   >same problem?


   Isn't that funny, I just made a similar post.  For me the problem occurs with
   tcsh and sh.  Don't have ksh to try it with.

in your posting, i don't recall seeing you mention that you use
tcsh...  you must have an older version of tcsh, which doesn't update
the PWD environment variable.  emacs blindly uses the value of PWD to
determine the current directory if that variable exists.  if it
doesn't exist, then it figures out the directory using other means,
presumably getcwd() or some such.  what you need to do is either
unsetenv PWD when you run tcsh or get the newest version of tcsh which
does this for you.  you can always fix tcsh to update $PWD for you, too.

to check this, go into some subdirectory and echo $PWD.  if the value
is your home directory, then that is your problem.  if so, then just
unsetenv PWD when you start up tcsh and things will work fine.

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