Hi Dan, That’s not my experience on XP; folders starting with '.' are easy to create both under Cygwin and the native Windows build. Please type M-x report-xemacs-bug RET and send us the contents as an email, to make it easier for us to work out what is different about your installation. It may be that your ~/.xemacs folder doesn’t exist, and that the error is provoked when you try to save your init.el or custom.el file to a non-existent directory. This has been fixed in the trunk of XEmacs 21.5, but I don’t think any release creates this change. You can work around this by pasting the text (make-directory (expand-file-name "~/.xemacs")) into *scratch*, moving the cursor past the last parenthesis, and pressing C-x C-e; once that’s one, saving those files should work again. Bye Ar an deichiú lá de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Dan Weems: -- ¿Dónde estará ahora mi sobrino Yoghurtu Nghé, que tuvo que huir precipitadamente de la aldea por culpa de la escasez de rinocerontes? _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta

Hi Vin, Sean MacLennan replied with an easier solution that I can avoid using Explorer to create the directory and instead use the DOS prompt and mkdir to create it. That was easy. Thanks for your reply. Dan Quoting Vin Shelton <acs(a)alumni.princeton.edu&gt;: -- Dan Weems Database Architect / Software Developer Puertofino Software LLC / Matador Holdings LLC Email: dan(a)matadorholdings.com Ph: 505-603-4692 (C) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta

Hi Dan You wrote: Dan> I've installed XEmacs on my Windows XP platform but when I go to Dan> save the init.el or custom.el files, it cannot do that because Dan> the operating system no longer allows folders with a dot as the Dan> first character. XP does allow files with a beginning dot. It can be tricky to create them though. As it seems save-options also require that the .xemacs folder already is available. So the trick is to create the folder "~/.xemacs" first. One way to do that is to do it with XEmacs itself together with dired (if you have dired package installed). Open your home folder with dired and use dired-create-directory, bound to the char '+', in dired-mode, to create the .xemacs-folder. Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta