Xemacs and Vista

Brian Lasher brian at lasherconsultingservices.com
Mon Mar 26 11:12:10 EDT 2007


Couldn't get the shell=C:... to work.  Any ideas?  Thanks for your help.

-brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:stephen at xemacs.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 12:58 AM
To: Brian Lasher
Cc: xemacs-beta at xemacs.org
Subject: Xemacs and Vista

Brian Lasher writes:

 > Please describe as succinctly as possible: 
 >         - What happened. : couldn't start shell because xemacs couldn't
find
 > Windows/system32/cmd.exe
 >         - What you thought should have happened.  Should have been able
to
 > start shell
 >         - Precisely what you were doing at the time.   Trying to open a
 > shell
 >
 > Looks like Windows/system32/cmd.exe was moved to
Windwos/System32/cmd.exe.

Try setting SHELL=C:/Windows/System32/cmd.exe in the environment before
starting XEmacs.  If that works we can see what to do about internal
settings.

(I thought Windows was not case-sensitive?)



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