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author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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date | Sat, 25 Mar 1995 18:07:05 +0000 |
parents | 0582cd3a31a6 |
children | 230cc184d96b |
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--- a/INSTALL Sat Mar 25 16:02:43 1995 +0000 +++ b/INSTALL Sat Mar 25 18:07:05 1995 +0000 @@ -135,6 +135,11 @@ is how you would override the default value of the variable news-inews-program (which is "/usr/local/inews"). +Before you override a variable this way, *look at the value* that the +variable gets by default! Make sure you know what kind of value the +variable should have. If you don't pay attention to what you are +doing, you'll make a mistake. + Note that, on some systems, the code you place in site-init.el must not use expand-file-name or any other function which may look something up in the system's password and user information database.