[1650] in testers
Re: dash perl entry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 31 12:00:27 1991
To: ckclark@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: Chris VanHaren <vanharen@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 91 12:00:28 BST
> Under the dash "Programming" menu, and under the sub-menu "Unsupported
> Languages", the entry for Perl says:
>
> >Perl is available on Athena in the watchmaker locker. To read the man
> >page for perl, type: add watchmaker; man perl.
>
> Perl's home is now the "perl" locker and users should be referred there.
>
> -Calvin
You're a victim of bad timing on this one... :-)
If you look again, you'll see that it says to add perl instead of
watchmaker... Marc pointed this out to me the other night, and I
changed it, but the change didn't show up until last night at 9pm with
the release of the AFS volume that contains the menus...
But thanks for noticing anyway. If you find any other discrepancies,
please let me know.
Next mail message --
> Selecting the emacs news reader from dash will produce the error:
>
> Cannot open load file: nntp.
>
> This is because gnus.el references nntp.el, which is also in
> /mit/sipb/lib/elisp/nntp.el. Since the load-path is still just
> /usr/athena/lib/gnuemacs/lisp, nntp.el is not being found.
>
> And, no, don't even think about adding "." to the load-path. :-)
>
> -Calvin
I don't even get that far. If I start up "emacs -q" on a VAX, I get
"Warning: lisp library (/usr/athena/lib/elisp) does not exist". It
should be /usr/athena/lib/gnuemacs/lisp, no?
Anyway, I'll look into fixing up the dash menu entry for gnus (and
discuss, which will probably break too... :-)
-C.
