[comp.emacs.xemacs] Re: M-x shell fails under Windows Vista

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an fichiú lá de mí Aibréan, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: 

 > Aidan Kehoe writes:
 > 
 >  > I’ve made a log of all the file accesses that installed XEmacs makes on a
 >  > -vanilla start available here: 
 >  > 
 >  > http://www.parhasard.net/xemacs/filemon-xemacs-startup-20070420.log.gz
 > 
 > Did you observe 11 requests for media?

No, and nothing appeared to be unrelated to my system. But then I’m on XP,
not Vista--Sean, if you can run Process Monitor: 
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspx
and examine what files XEmacs tries to load on starting, then send us a list
of them, that would be really helpful. 

 > If not, and you don't have an e: drive, maybe it would be possible to
 > alias e: to a removable media device, remove the media, and see if you
 > can correlate accesses with Windows bitching. 

I have an E: drive, and it’s empty right now. 

 > (ISTR from the Win2k fiasco that if you don't have a drive at all,
 > Windows won't complain. It's only for a drive with removable media, and
 > the file doesn't exist on that medium, that the complaint pops up.)
 > 
 > This suggests a possible workaround for Sean: rename the offending
 > device.
 > 
 > BTW, I gather that your opinion is that since help looks in DOC for
 > source file names, your patch has nothing to do with this?  (Just to
 > confirm, since you're the expert.)

Unless some of the startup Lisp tries to find the C source of a function or
variable, I can’t see how it could. 

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