Thanks to all who responded to my quries about emacs and ispell. There are a couple of things that has to be said.
1. I know that the site-start.el file actually lives in /etc. Debian already put a symlink in /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp for me so if Emacs looks for site-start.el in /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp, it should find it. Thanks to Christ Lynbech, I 'll try to follow his suggestions to track down the problem (I have to try it at home after work). 2. I mentioned emacs 19.28 of Slackware has no problem with site-start.el or ispell. I didn't install Debian over Slackware. Debian is in a fresh new partition so there can't be any old ispell.el(c) lying around. Thanks again for all the info. Now, who has ideas about the ppp problem I posted a few minutes ago? /Billy
