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        Hi!
I'm just wondering how to change the port number on the host I'm getting my
files from, in this case I want to read files from a ftp server running
on port 4081

"This is Info file standards.text, produced by Makeinfo-1.47 from the
 input file standards.texi."

* Anybody out there knows how that works:
* getting a *text* [not an Info] file with makeinfo?

Until now, I used some sed(1) command to strip off the
unwanted lines used by Emacs to locate nodes, and the
Tag list.
I would prefer to use a standard makeinfo command but
wasn't able to figure it out (no hint in the Texinfo
Info manual).

phil> I believe my problem is that the termcap entries do not include
phil> any specification of region scrolling.  Somehow I need to fix
phil> that (but this is going to be difficult because I am a mere
phil> user, not the sysadmin, on this machine, and UNIX seems to be
phil> designed to be customized only by sysadmins).  I've scrounged
phil> /etc/termcap for any suitable alternates, but none are to be
phil> found.  Eventually I hope to hack together a way to create my
phil> own termcaps and somehow get those to be used in lieu of
phil> /etc/termcap.

phil> IN THE MEAN TIME, is there any work around in GNU EMACS to force
phil> it to do region scrolling ANYWAY, despite the termcap being in
phil> error?  This is the substantial problem I have right now.

you do not indicate the version of gnu emacs or the hardware or
operating system of your machine. however, i will assume a recent
version of gnu emacs running on sun hardware and sunos 4.1.x.

i will further assume that you use /bin/csh as your shell.

copy the termcap definitions for your favorite terminals into your own
$HOME/termcap hack on them and then 'setenv TERMCAP $HOME/termcap'
(bourne and bash shell users should use the command
'TERMCAP=$HOME/termcap;export TERMCAP')

if you don't have sufficient diskspace for your own termcap, you may
be able to use the one in the emacs etc directory.

while in emacs look at the variable exec-path for an ".../etc" entry
that might be something like /usr/local/emacs/etc look to see if
the file /usr/local/emacs/etc/termcap (or whatever the path is)
exists. if it does, then exit emacs, do a

        setenv TERMCAP /usr/local/emacs/etc/termcap

and restart emacs to see if the scroll regions work for you.

First Way:

        Insert a TAB into the text.  Execute M-x "set-fill-prefix" and
        it will look at everyting that is on the line before the point
        and make that the fill-prefix (in this case a TAB).  That is
        how I got this paragraph to fill with a TAB.

Second Way:
        Insert the following lines in a .el file customized for you:

        (auto-fill-mode 1)
        (setq fill-prefix "        ")
        (setq fill-column 72)

I assume there must exist solution for my problem in the emacs world.

I'm looking for a emacs code which displays (possibly in the subject line
of the emacs) if some new mail for me has coming in.

At my workstation with X-windows "xbiff" does this nicely.
However, at home I have only a PC, running a remote emacs.
In this case I find it quite boring looking every other hour
if there is any new mail.

Thanks

wolf

(let ((process-connection-type nil))    ; try not to hog a pty for this.
  (display-time))
(defvar pop-mail nil "*If t display new mail in a pop up mail buffer.")
(defvar pop-mail-ding t "*If non-nil ding bell, when new mail pops up.")

Has someone running webster.el (version last changed 4/15/92) with
emacs 18.59? I always get 'Attempting to connect to server ...' and
then 'Process webster not running'. This error message is generated by
the line
  (process-send-string  webster-process webster-command)
in webster-send-request; I suspect that the problem lies in the
command make-shell a few lines earlier. Did the definition of
make-shell change in the new emacs release? Why is make-shell nowhere
documented?