On 6/16/06, Torsten <keiler(a)sbox.tugraz.at> wrote:
recently I got XEmacs (21.4.19) installed on Windows XP (SP2). It is
working, however it is not possible to start the 'ediff' package (I
like to compare two files). I got the message:
"Searching for program: No such file or directory, diff"
Hello, Torsten -
Thanks for downloading and using XEmacs. As it turns out, your
question is answered in the FAQ 5.4.5 (M-? F and then look for 5.4.5)
Q5.4.5: XEmacs complains "No such file or directory, diff"
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or "ispell" or other commands that seem related to whatever you just
tried to do (M-x ediff or M-$, for example).
There are a large number of common (in the sense that "everyone has
these, they really do") Unix utilities that are not provided with
XEmacs. The GNU Project's implementations are available for Windows in
the the Cygwin distribution (`http://www.cygwin.com/'), which also
provides a complete Unix emulation environment (and thus makes ports of
Unix utilities nearly trivial). Another implementation is that from
MinGW (`http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml'). If you know of others,
please let us know!
Regards,
Vin Shelton
--
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things. Mary Oliver