On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Derek Kivi <derek.k...@quic.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Derek Kivi <derek.k...@quic.com> >> wrote: >> > I have just switched to using Vista and am trying out EmacsW32 for >> the first >> > time. >> >> Hi Derek, hope you like it. >> >> >> > One thing I have noticed is under eshell, when I try ls –al, I get >> the >> > following error: >> > >> > >> > >> > c:/Derek $ ls -al >> > >> > total 13025 >> > >> > Wrong type argument: integerp, -2023488832.0 >> >> This works for me using Windows XP. Could you please try the unpatched >> binaries (just download the zip file for a quick check) and see if you >> get the same problem there? >> >> >> > However, ls, ls –a, and ls –l all seem to give the expected directory >> > listing. > > Hi Lennart, > > Using the unpatched binaries (unzipped emacs-from-cvs-090226.zip and ran > runemacs.exe) gave the same behaviour. ls -al failed with that same wrong > type argument error, while ls, ls -a, ls -l all worked as expected. > > For your info I am running 64-bit Vista if that might make any difference. > > Thanks again, > Derek
Then there are two things to test: 1) Start with "emacs -Q" and try "ls -a" in the same directory. 2) If it still fails then please report it as a bug (see the Help menu). Otherwise try to find out what in your emacs init files that makes it fail.
