Bug?

Bug?

[Sharon A Watkins]

I am running emacs on a WinOS system a getting an annoying error message:

"Creating directory:  permission denied, c:\.emacs.d"

I've tried making the directory for emacs as administrator, but WinOS
doesn't
like directories that start with a period.  The message itself isn't too
troublesome,
but my system dings each time it comes up, and it comes up continuously.
Also, when I exit emacs, I get a fatal error.

Cheers!

Sharon

Sharon A. Watkins
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Re: Bug?

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:41:40 -0700
"Sharon A Watkins" <swatkins@usgs.gov> wrote:

> "Creating directory:  permission denied, c:\.emacs.d"
> 
> I've tried making the directory for emacs as administrator, but WinOS
> doesn't like directories that start with a period.

I assume you´re using W95, W98 or Me. Windows Explorer won´t let you
create it, but you can do it from COMMAND.COM (from the Start menu chose
Run, then type COMMAND and press ENTER). You´ll be in COMMAND.COM, then
do:

cd \             (and press ENTER)
md .emacs.d      (and ENTER)
exit             (and ENTER)

and you´ll have the directory. (BTW, sorry if I´m being very basic here,
I don´t know how familiar you are with Windows and COMMAND.COM).

> but my system dings each time it comes up, and it comes up continuously.
> Also, when I exit emacs, I get a fatal error.

There are ways to make Emacs to not ding on error, if you so desire.

-- 
Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es>

Re: Bug?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Sharon A Watkins wrote:

> I am running emacs on a WinOS system a getting an annoying error message:
> 
> "Creating directory:  permission denied, c:\.emacs.d"
> 
> I've tried making the directory for emacs as administrator, but WinOS
> doesn't
> like directories that start with a period.

That's not true: it's only some Windows applications, notably the 
Explorer, prevent you from creating such directories and files.  But the 
Windows filesystem itself is perfectly happy with names like .emacs.d.

So the problem lies elsewhere.  Can you post the output of the command 
"dir c:\" typed from a DOS box?

Bug?

[Mark Espinoza]

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bug ?

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hello, emacs don't work.... since few day....

fg@nobody fg $ emacs
Fatal error (6).Abandon
fg@nobody fg $ su
Password: 
root@nobody fg # emacs
Fatal error (6).Abandon
root@nobody fg # 

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