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Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com> writes:

> I just went from emacs-19.34 to emacs-21.3 on Solaris 8. A lot has
> happened over the last few years.
>
> There are a few things I just can't figure out.
>
> 1.    How do you make the initial screen go away without clicking on it? I
>       fire up RMAIL in my .emacs. I see RMAIL come up and then the initial
>       screen comes up and I have to click to make it go away. In 19.34 it
>       would not come up if RMAIL was started.


,----[ C-h v inhibit-startup-message RET ]
| inhibit-startup-message's value is t
| 
| *Non-nil inhibits the initial startup message.
| This is for use in your personal init file, once you are familiar
| with the contents of the startup message.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
`----