From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31069 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Johansson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: getting started again Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 17:51:04 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <070101bfc113$2a3f3cb0$0500a8c0@rufus> References: <00May12.111709edt.115683@gateway.intersys.com> <200005121547.RAA12153@marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <200005172027.WAA16517@marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <019e01bfc047$07748130$0500a8c0@rufus> <200005180917.LAA25256@marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <03c201bfc0be$ad2510f0$0500a8c0@rufus> <200005181408.QAA29814@marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <06a301bfc105$789c9c30$0500a8c0@rufus> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167520 11929 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:32:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:32:00 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C4DCD051E for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 17:51:36 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB18170; Thu, 18 May 2000 16:51:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 18 May 2000 16:50:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA21773 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 16:50:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from harvee.billerica.ma.us (harvee.ConnActivity.com [206.34.215.253]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11183D051E for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 17:51:06 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from rufus (rufus.billerica.ma.us [192.168.0.5]) by harvee.billerica.ma.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA08428; Thu, 18 May 2000 17:51:04 -0400 Original-To: , "Erik Johannessen" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31069 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31069 hey! you spell my name funny :-) or maybe it was immigration that mutilated my grandfather's name? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Johannessen" > "Eric S. Johansson" writes: > > > the documentation covers how to download gnus just fine. I wasn't able to > > dig out the information on how to install it and let emacs find it. > > Rummaging through some old notes, I found: ... > byte-compiling and installing gnus is explained in the README file in > the top-level directory of the distribution. that explains it! When you grab gnus via CVS you do not get the README file. you get: [esj@harvee gnus]$ ls CVS GNUS-NEWS Makefile.in config.cache config.status configure.in etc lisp mkinstalldirs todo ChangeLog Makefile aclocal.m4 config.log configure contrib install-sh make.bat texi xemacs.mak > > enter the following line into your .emacs file and exit then re-enter emacs > > to activate the changes (is there a better way to do this?) > > there should be no need to restart your emacs. you can eval the > expression from the buffer where you edit your .emacs file. I tried that but it did not work. I probably fat fingered something. --- eric