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Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 10:37:02 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: emacs under w2k
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 11:08:18 +0100
> > From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> >
> > Eli, BTW config.bat in Emacs CVS does 'cd lispintro' at one point. This
> > does not work if you've extracted the sources using SFN.
> 
> Ugh.  Does cmd.exe on NT support the usual trick to detect a
> non-existing directory?  That is, will the following solve the
> problem?
> 
>         if exist lispintro\nul cd lispintro
>         if exist lispintr\nul cd lispintr

Yes, just tried it and it works.

Rather than checking for nul, why not check for a file that you know exists in
lispintro (aka lispintr), say makefile or readme?

> I seem to recall that some recent Windows version (W2K? XP?) doesn't
> like this method, though.  Hmm.

Yes, I don't think it works reliably. See Andrew Cottrell's mail entitled "Re:
Make 3.791 on Windows 2000 test" and dated Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:28:43 +1000.

I believe Microsoft made changes to the support of the <directory>\<device
name> feature, because people were using it to exploit path-parsing problems
in Microsoft IIS on earlier versions of NT.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]