Daniel Pittman writes:
> On Fri, 12 May 2000, Kai Großjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Pete says that colons in rcp-file-format don't work for him,
> > whereas Francisco and Daniel say they work fine. What can we do
> > to find out why the colons don't work for Pete?
> >
> > The XEmacs versions used:
> >
> > Pete XEmacs 21.1.7
> > Fransisco 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid
> > Daniel 21.2 (beta32) "Kastor & Polydeukes" XEmacs Lucid
> >
> > So maybe this is a problem in 21.1.7 which has been fixed in later
> > releases?
>
> Maybe. I know that there is some dangerous code to manage drive
> letters[1] in some of the C sources. It does all the DWIM things
> that MS-DOS has one forever, such as 'd:file' =>
> 'd:/current/path/file' and things like that.
>
> Er, it /tries/ not to fsck with EFS paths and that sort of thing,
> but reading the code I think that rcp paths may well trip some of
> the cases, possibly including the one above...
>
> Pete, are you running the Windows version of XEmacs?
No. XEmacs 21.1.7 on AIX 4.3.2 and IRIX 6.5.5m, and 20.4 on Solaris
2.6.
I have yet to upgrade to XEmacs 21.1.10 but I've just pulled efs.el
from cvs.xemacs.org. The overloading code that is giving me grief is
still the same.
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Pete Forman | Disclaimer: This posting is originated by
Western Geophysical | myself and does not represent the opinion
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