From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	emacs & win95 (interesting new problem)
Date:	Mon, 01 Dec 1997 00:47:37 +0000
Organization:	Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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CC:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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I have recently begun to use Emacs 19.34 (built with DJGPP from GNU ftp
archive sources dated 10-23-96) under Windows 95, and ran into the same
old problem with filename conflicts that many people have reported.  I
was all set to follow Eli Zaretskii's instructions for reinstalling
Emacs in an LFN-clean manner, but I got hung up on one minor point...

There _is_ no "NameNumericTail" option in my Win95 registry, nor any
variant thereof.  I searched for "NameNumericTail", and each of those
three words separately, in keys, text, and data, and came up with
nothing.  It's kind of hard to disable a nonexistent option.

I was able to work around the problem by manually renaming all the
LFN-dirty files in the 'lisp' directory, because, for some reason,
renaming a file to a name greater than 8+3 with the DOS 7.0 version of
'rename' does not cause the 8+3 filename to be truncated with a numeric
tail.  Using rename() from the DJGPP library, OTOH, does.  I automated
the process slightly by writing a program that compared the contents of
an 8+3 directory and an LFN directory and wrote out a batch file to
rename all necessary files, but this was a cumbersome and evil way to do
the task.  :)

Could anybody tell me why I don't have that all-important registry
option, or at least where in the registry I should create it?  For what
it's worth, I use Win95 OSR1, recently upgraded from the original (where
the option did not exist either).  It was installed from an OEM CD-ROM
as a dual-boot with a Win3.1/DOS 6.22 system.

Here's another neat trick:  whenever I try to use the 'M-x compile'
command from a Win95 DOS box, my computer's internal speaker begins
beeping constantly and Emacs freezes, unresponsive to Ctrl-C or
Ctrl-Break.  It does this from a full screen or a window, and the only
way to recover is to manually shut down the DOS box.  I can shell to DOS
from Emacs and run programs normally, just not from the Emacs
compilation window.  Could this also be a symptom of LFN conflicts?

Thanks!

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