Jonathan> Note that this patch is reversed. Oops. Sorry. Jonathan> HAVE_MS_WINDOWS indicates support for the win32 GUI. You shuld be Jonathan> conditioning this stuff on __CYGWIN32__ and !WINDOWSNT I think because Jonathan> it's the wrong thing for the native mswindows build. Ok. I'll fix that. Jonathan> This seems wrong for the cygwin build for the reason that Darryl Okahata Jonathan> gives in xemacs-beta; converting c:\foo into /c/foo is no good, it Jonathan> should be converted to //c/foo. Also it looks like it treats \foo as a Jonathan> relative path? See my reply to Darryl. My mistake. Yes it does treat \foo as a relative path, and it is because you need the drive to fully specify the path, right? Jonathan> I see that on the native build too. I think that it may be because Jonathan> gnulient and xemacs are console rather than GUI apps. I found one workaround for this: In the file association, turn off the DDE association. I don't do windows, so all of this has been quick guess work. Thanks for all of the suggestions. Ray