Thanks Jeff!  Of course, the missing install file was the problem.  I guess org mode has evolved considerably since the last time I looked at the manual...

Scott

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> wrote:
Do you have org-install.el in your init file?

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Scott Otterson <scotto@sharpleaf.org> wrote:
> When I start emacs and then edit an org file, ascii export fails (M-x
> org-export [return key] a).  No export file is created and I see the
> following message:
>     Autoloading failed to define function org-export-as-ascii
> But if I type:
>     M-x org-customize
> then export works.  The other way I can get this to work is to manually load
> org-ascii.el (which came with the org mode distribution).
> This is with org-mode version 7.5.
> Scott
>
>



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