Darryl> FYI, Darryl> Someone (Adrian???) might want to check out the web Darryl> page for Darryl> ancient Win32 binaries. I've been hearing rumors (from Hi Darryl, IE can't parse that URL :-) Darryl> within my company) about ancient Win32 XEmacs binaries on Darryl> the XEmacs web site, and I just saw this posting on news. Yes, I reported and even fixed this bug a while back after review from Ben. What's you suggestion? I can only guess you want this binary to be pulled off the disk? Any pinters would be highly welcome. Darryl> -- Darryl> Darryl Okahata Darryl> darrylo(a)soco.agilent.com Darryl> DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion Darryl> and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Darryl> Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have Darryl> been following him all day. The little green men have changed their company logo to dark blue and a light grey :-) Darryl> From: edburns(a)yahoo.com (Ed Burns) Darryl> Subject: ediff broken: ''End of stream: "internal input stream"'' Darryl> Newsgroups: comp.emacs.xemacs Darryl> Date: 12 Nov 2001 15:58:51 -0800 Darryl> Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Darryl> I'm using Xemacs 21.1.9 on Win2000, installed from the .exe installer Darryl> on xemacs.org, and the sumo tarball: xemacs-sumo-2001-09-29.tar.gz. Darryl> When I visit a buffer and do M-x ediff-merge, I get the message Darryl> End of stream: "internal input stream" Darryl> in the status bar and no ediff buffers are opened. Can someone please Darryl> help me? Darryl> Co-incidentally, I also get the message when I invoke M-x compile for Darryl> the first time in a session. Subsequent invocations of M-x compile Darryl> work ok. Darryl> Ed Darryl> ---------- -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

Darryl> Adrian.Aichner(a)t-online.de (Adrian Aichner) wrote: Darryl> No, but: Darryl> * The poster in comp.xemacs said that he installed Darryl> "21.1.9" (the older ones available are Darryl> "21.1.14/21.1.13", according to the web page). He could Darryl> be wrong, but one of the XEmacs web pages may have a Darryl> stray pointer to "21.1.9" somewhere. My latest linklint log files suggest otherwise. Darryl> * The web page says that older versions ("21.1.14/21.1.13") can be Darryl> installed, but Andy said (yesterday) that can no longer Darryl> be done via the netinstaller. Yes, I heard the yesterday. Only Andy can provide more background on this. I can't update the website for Andy's data. Darryl> * Have the web sites changed in the last week or so? The XEmacs web site is perpetually changing. xemacs-patches documents all changes. Darryl> Inside my company, I've been handling a complaint about Darryl> cygwin XEmacs under Win98. They've been complaining Darryl> about how a setup.exe "obtained from xemacs.org" (1) Darryl> says that it's out-of-date, and (2) screws up the XEmacs Darryl> desktop shortcut by putting command.com into the Darryl> shortcut (AFAICT, setup.exe used to add command.com to Darryl> the shortcut, but no longer does so). Please get more info from the complainer. Perhaps they used any binaries from the ftp site. These are not advertised via the website AFAICT. Perhaps we should remove stuff from 1999? /ftp＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/tux/xemacs/binaries/cygwin32: drwxrwsr-x 2 jason xemacadm 4096 Oct 29 23:08 . drwxrwsr-x 12 jason xemacadm 4096 Oct 29 23:13 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 jason xemacadm 699 Feb 5 2001 README.MD5SUM -rw-r--r-- 1 xemacs xemacadm 4070 Oct 6 2000 README.i686-pc-cygwin32-1.x -rw-rw-r-- 1 jason xemacadm 4129 Jul 6 1999 README.i686-pc-cygwin32-b19 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jason xemacadm 4284 Jul 6 1999 README.i686-pc-cygwin32-b19-X -rw-rw-r-- 1 jason xemacadm 4319 Jul 6 1999 README.i686-pc-cygwin32-b20 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jason xemacadm 4271 Jul 6 1999 README.i686-pc-cygwin32-b20-X -rw-rw-r-- 1 jason xemacadm 8395938 Jul 6 1999 xemacs-21.1.3-i686-pc-cygwin32-b19-X.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 jason xemacadm 8037327 Jul 6 1999 xemacs-21.1.3-i686-pc-cygwin32-b19.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 jason xemacadm 9981132 Sep 20 1999 xemacs-21.1.3-i686-pc-cygwin32-b20.1-X.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 jason xemacadm 9372581 Sep 20 1999 xemacs-21.1.3-i686-pc-cygwin32-b20.1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 slb xemacadm 7559692 Apr 19 2001 xemacs-i686-pc-cygwin-21.4.0.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 slb xemacadm 7863268 May 17 23:01 xemacs-i686-pc-cygwin-21.4.3.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 slb xemacadm 7701099 Oct 29 23:08 xemacs-i686-pc-cygwin-21.4.5.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 xemacs xemacadm 6917126 Jan 9 2001 xemacs-i686-pc-cygwin32-21.1.13.tar.gz Darryl> Last Wednesday or Thursday, I downloaded the (then) Darryl> latest setup.exe, and installed XEmacs (cygwin) under Darryl> Win98; command.com was not added to the shortcut, and Darryl> the shortcut worked fine. Everything worked fine for Darryl> me, and so I'm at a loss why others are having problems. Please refer any complainers to the XEmacs website download area. The data you got is too vague to be persued any further. I am always happy to hear about problems with the website though. Any error you find, please just use the feedback link in at the bottom of any page: Maintained by webmaster(a)xemacs.org -------------------- I have been frustrated with many websites which don't even give you any clue how to reach their webmaster, so I made sure feedback can easily be provided for every single page of http://www.xemacs.org and any of its mirrors. Best regards, Adrian Darryl> -- Darryl> Darryl Okahata Darryl> darrylo(a)soco.agilent.com Darryl> DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not Darryl> constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or Darryl> of the little green men that have been following him all day. -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/