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What are `etc/SERVICE', `src/config.h', and `lisp/default.el'?
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   These are files that come with Emacs.  The Emacs distribution is
divided into subdirectories; the important ones are `etc', `lisp', and
`src'.

   If you use Emacs, but don't know where it is kept on your system,
start Emacs, then type `C-h v data-directory <RET>'.  The directory
name displayed by this will be the full pathname of the installed `etc'
directory.  (This full path is recorded in the Emacs variable
`data-directory', and `C-h v' displays the value and the documentation
of a variable.)

   The location of your Info directory (i.e., where on-line
documentation is stored) is kept in the variable
`Info-default-directory-list'.  Use `C-h v Info-default-directory-list
<RET>' to see the value of this variable, which will be a list of
directory names.  The last directory in that list is probably where
most Info files are stored.  By default, Info documentation is placed
in `/usr/local/info'.

   Some of these files are available individually via FTP or e-mail; see
Note: Informational files for Emacs.  They all are available in the
source distribution.  Many of the files in the `etc' directory are also
available via the Emacs `Help' menu, or by typing `C-h ?' (`M-x
help-for-help').

   Your system administrator may have removed the `src' directory and
many files from the `etc' directory.