emacs (.emacs under YP)

[Denis Laplante guest]

In article <9012120820.AA01430 at cs.hut.fi>, visti at SAUNA.HUT.FI (Hannu
Visti) writes:
> 
> I compiled and installed emacs-18.55 to a personal iris (irix 3.3.1).
> Installation went normally, but this emacs cannot handle my
.emacs-file,
> it complains "error in init file" everytime I start it.
> 

I fixed that problem by making sure that /etc/passwd on every machine
contained my name.  It would appear that the YP version of passwd is
not consulted when looking for ~/.emacs .  
I placed the redundant entries after the '+' entry, so that those
programs
making normal use of YP will get the YP version.

Most likely there is a better way to fix this at compile time.