Charles> DQoNCkphbiBWcm9vbmhvZiB3cml0ZXM6DQoNCiA+IEl0IGNvdWxkIGJlIGEgYnVnIGluIHRoZSBO <64 lines deleted by Adrian> Charles> dG9yeTogSW52YWxpZCBhcmd1bWVudCwgYzpcaG9tZVxjZ3dcBQFwP4IvLmF1dG9zYXZlDQoNCg== Is this what you call MIME? ;-> Anyways, I was able to decrypt it: CW> Jan Vroonhof writes: CW> CW> > It could be a bug in the NT expand-file-name routines (what does CW> > (expand-file-name "test" "~/test/") give under your machines). CW> CW> (setenv "HOME" "/home/cgw") CW> CW> (insert (getenv "HOME")) /home/cgw CW> (insert (expand-file-name "test" "~/test/")) c:\home\cgw\test\test CW> CW> (setenv "HOME" "C:\\home\\cgw") CW> CW> (insert (getenv "HOME")) C:\home\cgw CW> (insert (expand-file-name "test" "~/test/")) c:\home\cgw\test\test CW> CW> (setenv "HOME" "\\\\reactor\\cgwhome") CW> CW> (insert (getenv "HOME")) \\reactor\cgwhome CW> (insert (expand-file-name "test" "~/test/")) c:\home\cgw\test\test CW> CW> (setenv "HOME" "//reactor/cgwhome") CW> CW> (insert (getenv "HOME")) //reactor/cgwhome CW> (insert (expand-file-name "test" "~/test/")) c:\home\cgw\test\test Charles, you will have to change the environment variable HOME in the Control Panel and then run a new XEmacs from Start->Run... Then you will get different results for (expand-file-name ...) above. I do, at least. Even the UNC path works for me. Regards, Adrian CW> CW> > I do not know the NT port but shouldn't HOME be a directory including CW> > driveletter since otherwise it is not uniquely specified? CW> CW> I tried it with HOME=/home/cgw and HOME=C:\home\cgw, get the same CW> behaviour (No such file or directory, c:\home\cgw\home\cgw\/.autosave) CW> both ways. CW> CW> > The funny thing is that XEmacs tries to do its best to copy with funny CW> > HOME values but on NT it seems to be switched of explicitly: CW> > CW> > if (IS_DIRECTORY_SEP (nm[1]) CW> > || nm[1] == 0) /* ~ by itself */ CW> > { CW> > if (!(newdir = (Bufbyte *) get_home_directory())) CW> > newdir = (Bufbyte *) ""; CW> > nm++; CW> > #ifdef WINDOWSNT CW> > collapse_newdir = 0; CW> > #endif CW> > } CW> > CW> > The collapse_newdir explicitly tells XEmacs to not consider the fact CW> your CW> > HOME prefix starts with a / and just prepend the current dir which CW> > happened to be c:\home\cgw in your case. It seems bogus to me. CW> > CW> > Could you try removing that code and then test what happends to expand CW> > file name in all case. i.e. with CW> > CW> > 1. HOME includes driveletter CW> > 2. HOME does not include drive letter. CW> > 3. HOME is a network path CW> CW> Sorry, I was not completely clear on what code you wanted me to CW> remove. The 3 lines beginning with #ifdef WINDOWSNT, or the entire CW> block you quoted above? I tried it both ways. CW> CW> With the "#ifdef WINDOWSNT" changed to "#ifdef XXXWINDOWSNTXXX" CW> I get no warnings from make-auto-save-file-name, but clearly wrong CW> behaviour from expand-file-name: CW> CW> (setenv "HOME" "/home/cgw") CW> CW> (insert (getenv "HOME")) /home/cgw CW> (insert (expand-file-name "test" "~/test/")) c:\test\test CW> CW> (setenv "HOME" "C:\\home\\cgw") CW> CW> (insert (getenv "HOME")) C:\home\cgw CW> (insert (expand-file-name "test" "~/test/")) c:\test\test CW> CW> (setenv "HOME" "\\\\reactor\\cgwhome") CW> CW> (insert (getenv "HOME")) \\reactor\cgwhome CW> (insert (expand-file-name "test" "~/test/")) c:\test\test CW> CW> (setenv "HOME" "//reactor/cgwhome") CW> CW> (insert (getenv "HOME")) //reactor/cgwhome CW> (insert (expand-file-name "test" "~/test/")) c:\test\test CW> CW> CW> CW> With the entire block removed I get this result: CW> CW> CW> (setenv "HOME" "/home/cgw") CW> CW> (insert (getenv "HOME")) /home/cgw CW> (insert (expand-file-name "test" "~/test/")) c:\home\cgw\test\test CW> CW> (setenv "HOME" "C:\\home\\cgw") CW> CW> (insert (getenv "HOME")) C:\home\cgw CW> (insert (expand-file-name "test" "~/test/")) c:\home\cgw\test\test CW> CW> (setenv "HOME" "\\\\reactor\\cgwhome") CW> CW> (insert (getenv "HOME")) \\reactor\cgwhome CW> (insert (expand-file-name "test" "~/test/")) c:\home\cgw\test\test CW> CW> (setenv "HOME" "//reactor/cgwhome") CW> CW> (insert (getenv "HOME")) //reactor/cgwhome CW> (insert (expand-file-name "test" "~/test/")) c:\home\cgw\test\test CW> CW> CW> (1) (warning/warning) Error caught in `make-auto-save-file-name': CW> Creating directory: Invalid argument, c:\home\cgw\
??‚/.autosave CW> CW> (2) (warning/warning) Error caught in `make-auto-save-file-name': CW> Creating directory: Invalid argument, c:\home\cgw\
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