From: arlindo AT niteroi DOT gsfc DOT nasa DOT gov (Arlindo da Silva)
Subject: Re: Accessing pathname translation...
17 Oct 1997 13:52:45 -0700
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To: Andrew DOT Stevens AT comlab DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (Andrew Stevens)
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> I'm trying to build a patch for NT Emacs to support Cygnus-style
> pathnames, 

Does that includes symlinks?

> a full port onto GNUWin32 is not practical or
> even really necessary.   All that is required is consistent
> mapping of filenames.
> 

I see myself more and more logging on to my NT remotely from a SGI. What would
be really lovely is networl transparency X windows support, so that I could pop
up a NT emacs window on my workstation. You don't really need gnuwin32
for that as X11R6.3 compiles out of the tarfile with MSVC.

   Arlindo.

-- 
Arlindo da Silva    
dasilva AT alum DOT mit DOT edu


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