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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
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> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:20:59 +0300 (EET DST)
> From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
> >
> > Why not set them to e:/ or e:\ ?
> 
> I did so after I noticed that Emacs doesn't like plain e: (BTW, this is
> completely undocumented in the Emacs manual).

I don't think this factoid is worth documenting.

> The why doesn't Emacs add a slash to the string?  DJGPP's tmpnam does so
> and it seems quite sensible to me.

If you send a patch to do that, I will check it into the Emacs CVS.

Thanks.

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