auto-save-unslashify-name/auto-save-slashify-name at WinNT is broken

This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In XEmacs 21.2 (beta35) "Nike" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Fri Sep 08 2000 on NEVERYON configured using `configure UNKNOWN' I get an error during auto-saving if I set auto-save-directory to some NT directory. To store the whole path in the file name, auto-save-name-in-fixed-directory uses auto-save-unslashify-name to replace \\ in file path by \\\\. But this doesn't work for WinNT, as backslahes are not allowed in file name at any case. This work for storing auto-save files in the original directory (with auto-save-directory nil), as in this case backslashes are part of the path and not of the file name. Maybe with auto-save-directory set, backslashes should be replaced by any other unusual character, like vertical bar? -- Konstantin Malakhanov ISOWARE GmbH, Feithstr. 142, 58097 Hagen, Germany email: km(a)isoware.de Tel: 02331/8019-71 FAX: 02331/8019-99