could not find the answer to this problem.  anyone?
emacs 21.2.1 redhat 9
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Shay <sah### [at] simcopartscom> wrote:
> I want to experiment with the pov-mode in Emacs, but am getting an error. I
> untarred the three files into /usr/share/emacs/21.2/list/textmodes. I did
> not have an .emacs file in my home directory, so I created one whih now
> contains only:
>
> (autoload 'pov-mode "pov-mode.el" "PoVray scene file mode" t)
> (setq auto-mode-alist
>         (append '(("\.pov$" . pov-mode)
>                   ("\.inc$" . pov-mode)
>                  ) auto-mode-alist))
> (require 'pov-mode)
>
> When I attempt to start Emacs, or when I remove the last line, start Emacs,
> and then try to M-x to pov-mode, I get the following error:
>
> Wrong type argument: listp, "/usr/share/emacs/21.2/etc/"
>
> I know that the pov-mode files are in the load path. Emacs does bagin to
> load pov-mode before displaying the error. I can switch to perl-mode,
> cc-mode, etc. without a problem.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>  -Shay

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