Re: primitive documentation conventions

Jim Blandy (jimb@red-bean.com)
10 Jul 1998 19:23:38 -0400

> The emacs installation didn't have a problem, iirc, but sometimes Linux
> distributions did. The problem arises if you have a DOC file that
> wasn't created at the same time the emacs was. For example, if you
> have separate tar files with the Emacs binary and Emacs data
> directories. It's easy in this case for one to be updated without the
> other. The solution was just to rebuild and reinstall emacs.

No, I'm pretty sure we had problems before Linux even existed.

I don't know. It's just a vague memory. We need to think this
through carefully.