Re: Getting "Doing Fork: Bad File Descriptor" when using various tools

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 Nute <eric(a)lybrandnute.net&gt;