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kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Paul Stevenson <paul@gleet.org.uk> writes:
>
>> I have a moderately old emacs (20.3) on which I run ognus.  I need to
>> use the base64.el from the contrib directory, but I've forgotten how
>> to run configure or make or whatever to make sure this happens.
>> Anyone care to enlighten me?
>
> Maybe you have to add the contrib directory to load-path.  I can't
> recall that there was another way to do it, except manually.

To the load-path in my .emacs.el?  That doesn't seem to work.  Do I
need to play around with the Makefile?  How would I go about doing it
manually?

thanks,
paul