From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: Bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug?
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:44:48 +0300 (IDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020829074225.26003B-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF1971F8DE.B77957FB-ON88256C23.00609C1A@wr.usgs.gov>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-29 4:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-28 17:41 Bug? Sharon A Watkins
2002-08-29 1:38 ` Bug? Juanma Barranquero
2002-08-29 4:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2003-09-23 11:07 Bug? Mark Espinoza
2005-03-07 16:35 bug ? fg
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