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> From: "Jason" <realsong@hotmail.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:50:36 +0800
> 
> I start my emacs(ver:21.3) now, but the help system is disabled! When I hit
> C-h, it just delete a character like "backspace". I installed emacs at
> /home/myname/emacs-21.3-installed, and manual pages were stored at
> /home/myname/emacs-21.3-installed/man.How can I enable emacs's help system?

Tell us more about your machine/OS and how you configured and built
Emacs.

The value of the variable system-configuration and
system-configuration-options might be helpful here, so please show
them.