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To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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Subject: RE: FreeBSD 2.1 Live File System CD
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g'day annelise,
i was really excited to hear that emacs was available on the Live FS ( 
ialwiz knew it to be a package that was some 11 MB in .tgz form). i 
searched my CD and could not find it. are you referring to FBSD-2.1.0R ?

ivan

On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Annelise Anderson wrote:

> First I found the emacs binary on the live file system.  I typed
> "emacs" and got messages about files it could not find.  These files
> are all on the cdrom, but emacs expects to find them not in (for
> example) /cdrom/local/lib/emacs but in /usr/local/lib/emacs.  So I
> used lndir (e.g., lndir /cdrom/local/lib/emacs /usr/local/lib/emacs)
> to create shadow directories with symbolic links to the files on the
> cdrom.  With emacs this took several steps, as it quits (with the
> message you need to solve the problem) as soon as there's something
> it can't find.  I think I had to use lndir three or four times before
> everything necessary was linked.
> 
> lndir is on the cdrom as part of X-Windows; you might want to first
> find it (find /cdrom -name lndir) and copy it to /usr/local/bin.  
> X-Windows is another program you might want to try running from the
> cdrom if you have really limited space; I haven't done that but I
> imagine the process would be similar.
>