Thanks for the reply.
I tried the suggested command, M-! test testfile.txt after first opening testfile.txt into a buffer. I got the same "Doing fork: Bad file descriptor" message.
It would seem that this result is consistent with the hypothesis. How would I adjust the path used by this version of xemacs?
In answering the questions asked of me, I am a new user of Xemacs and Cygwin, although I have some experience with Linux and FreeBSD. As mentioned before, I am using the "C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\i686-pc-cygwin\xemacs-21.4.13.exe" binary for xemacs. I used the Cygwin setup.exe version 2.416 to install cygwin, but I can't figure out which version of cygwin I am using.
The funny thing is, though, that on another system I installed the same thing and it worked. The big differences between the two systems are:
- I built the working system, whereas my Info Manag dept. built the one that doesn't work
- The working system is a stand alone, but the broken one is part of a domain.
I am beginning to think that some form of the mkpasswd command might help me, but
Again, I really don't know what kinds of things to do to try an troubleshoot this problem, so any suggestions are greatly welcome.
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>>>>>"Eric" == Eric Nute <eric(a)lybrandnute.net> writes:
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> Eric> I am using Xemacs, Cygwin version, on a Windows 2000
> Eric> station. When I tried to use the tools, specifically "Tools
> Eric> -> Compare -> Two Files" or "Tools -> Grep -> Grep all files
> Eric> in directory", the tool fails with an error in the bottom
> Eric> line stating "Doing Fork: Bad File Descriptor" .
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>What happens if you do M-! grep something some-existing-file RET?
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>I suspect grep is not on the PATH that XEmacs knows about.
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>The other possibility is breakage in XEmacs handing off processes to
>Cygwin. What version of Cygwin are you using? Is this changed
>behavior, or are you a new XEmacs users? Have you updated (from a
>previous version) either XEmacs or Cygwin lately?
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>A better place to ask is xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org, and/or
>xemacs-winnt(a)xemacs.org (the latter is nearly defunct, but there are
>still a few subscribers who haven't joined the xemacs-beta list yet).
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Eric Nute <eric(a)lybrandnute.net>