Caitlin> I am running Xemacs on a Redhat 7.1 system installed on a Caitlin> 866MHz Pentium III. I have just installed version 21.4.3 Caitlin> per the install instructions page, I think! :) Caitlin> How do I get Xemacs to connect to the internet to Caitlin> download the packages necessary for full functionalitY? You have to at least have efs and xemacs-base installed, before you can use the package system. This is recognised as a design flaw. See http://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html For more background information you may want to read http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packageGuide.html as well. Hope this helps, Adrian Caitlin> If I try and run the "List and Install" function I get Caitlin> the following error message Caitlin> "Symbol's value as variable is void: allow-remote-paths". Caitlin> It appears that Xemacs willnot talk to the internet. I Caitlin> set up the mail function to use netscape and it downloads Caitlin> messages fine this way and I can use the internet Caitlin> normally (or you wouldnt be seeing this) :) so can anyone Caitlin> help this poor ol redheaded woman fix her toy??? Tnanks Caitlin> Caitlin -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

At 05:00 PM 7/2/01 -0700, Kyle Jones wrote: Is that the UNIX spirit of Christmas past? :) andy