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Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 08:03:23 -0400
From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: emacs under w2k
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Richard Dawe wrote:
> 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.

I vaguely recall some sort of discussion on the 4dos mailing list,
where something funny happens under 4NT, on some versions of NT
(maybe XP).  Just a warning that this may well not be universally
usable.  Since I don't use NT and would never allow XP in to spy,
I paid little attention.

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