Eric,

.profile has:
# MacPorts Installer addition on 2009-04-08_at_20:48:37: adding an
appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts.
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
# Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu> wrote:

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>
> Bryan Emrys wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Now getting an error message: /bin/bash: dot: command not found
>>
>> Hmm. Pathname issue?
>>
>
> Absolutely.
>
>
>
>> On the mac, dot is in /opt/local/bin/dot
>> My .emacs file has: (setq load-path (cons "/opt/local/bin" load-path))
>>
>>
> That won't add anything to your shell's path, it's just where Emacs
> looks for code to load.
>
>
>  I can certainly just open a terminal window and run dot from the command
>> line.
>>
>
> Can you grep your shell startup files and find out which one adds
> /opt/local/bin to the path?
>
>