emacs 21.3/w3 startup error

[Gaspard Toofany]

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In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195)
 of 2004-03-10 on NYAUMO
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.2)'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENG
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

running emacs 21.3 for NT, did a M-x w3, resulted in error 'wrong type
argument, stringp nil

can't view web via emacs/w3 



Recent input:
M-x w 3 <return> M-x w 3 <tab> <return> M-x ( s e t 
- d e b u g - o n - e r r o r SPC t ) <return> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
M-x w 3 <return> <right> <f6> M-x : <backspace> r e 
p o r t - e m a c s - b u g s <return> <backspace> 
<return>

Recent messages:
call-interactively: Quit
Contacting www.cs.indiana.edu:80
Reading [text/html]... 1015 bytes of 2k (34%)
Retrieval complete.
Parsed  80% of 2951...
Parsed 100% of 2951...done
Drawing... done
set-face-attribute: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
call-interactively: End of buffer
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