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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>
Subject: Re: ielm uses the cat program
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:25:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E397C20.6090509@ihs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1181.1043931343.21513.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Juanma Barranquero wrote:

> On the trunk it's already fixed:
> 
>   ;; A dummy process to keep comint happy. It will never get any input
>   (unless (comint-check-proc (current-buffer))
>     ;; Was cat, but on non-Unix platforms that might not exist, so
>     ;; use hexl instead, which is part of the Emacs distribution.
>     (condition-case nil
> 	(start-process "ielm" (current-buffer) "hexl")
>       (file-error (start-process "ielm" (current-buffer) "cat")))
>     (process-kill-without-query (ielm-process))
>     (goto-char (point-max))


If hexl is distributed with Emacs, how could start-process signal a file-error?

And if it doess, why is cat considered a viable fallback?

-- 
<a href="mailto:&lt;kevin.rodgers&#64;ihs.com&gt;">Kevin Rodgers</a>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-30 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-30 12:19 ielm uses the cat program Alex Schroeder
2003-01-30 12:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
     [not found] ` <mailman.1181.1043931343.21513.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-30 19:25   ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-01-30 23:15     ` Juanma Barranquero

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