RE: emacsclient and emacsclientw don't work in Windows Vista x64 RTM

[Deutsch, Will]

Hi,

I was specifically asked to provide the / vs \ output of Dir.

However, you may note that / works as long as it isn't the last element of
Dir.

Cheers,
Will

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From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 11:39 PM
To: Deutsch, Will
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Subject: Re: emacsclient and emacsclientw don't work in Windows Vista x64
RTM

> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:59:05 -0800
> From: "Deutsch, Will" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> It appears that the / between the bin and the command is the problem. This
may 
> be an OS bug.
> 
> Here is the dir output:
> C:\Users\wdeutsch>dir "C:\Program Files
(x86)\Emacs\emacs/bin/runemacs.exe"
>  Volume in drive C is OS Drive
>  Volume Serial Number is 8020-54D6
> 
>  Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\Emacs\emacs\bin
> 
> File Not Found

Am I missing something here?  How are the problems with DIR relevant
to emacsclient?  It is well known that DIR doesn't grok forward
slashes because it tries to interpret what follows a forward slash as
an option (try "DIR /?" and you will see what options it supports).
However, emacsclient is not DIR; emacsclient simply passes the file
names to the OS API, and the OS API does support forward slashes as
well as backslashes.

So please show us where the forward slashes fail inside emacsclient,
not with DIR.

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