From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs,gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: M-x shell does not work on Windows when default-directory too long Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 21:23:08 +0100 Sender: emacs-pretest-bug-bounces+gebp-emacs-pretest-bug=gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091391929 29505 80.91.224.253 (1 Aug 2004 20:25:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 20:25:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-pretest-bug-bounces+gebp-emacs-pretest-bug=gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 01 22:25:20 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BrMtU-0003ZG-00 for ; Sun, 01 Aug 2004 22:25:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BrMwq-0004Au-2i for gebp-emacs-pretest-bug@gmane.org; Sun, 01 Aug 2004 16:28:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BrMvH-00030p-04 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Aug 2004 16:27:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BrMv6-0002xV-Lh for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Aug 2004 16:27:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BrMv6-0002xK-GL; Sun, 01 Aug 2004 16:27:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BrMrh-0004hV-2i; Sun, 01 Aug 2004 16:23:30 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i71KNCnF016922; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:23:12 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC41DDD71; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:23:12 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Michael Schierl In-Reply-To: (Michael Schierl's message of "Sun, 01 Aug 2004 21:24:56 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: emacs-pretest-bug.gnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-pretest-bug-bounces+gebp-emacs-pretest-bug=gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:3634 gmane.emacs.bugs:8596 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:8596 Michael Schierl writes: > Start Emacs with -q. > > Open an existing file with a long path (e.g. "c:/temp/deepdir/deepdir/deepdir/deepdir/deepdir/deepdir/deepdir/deepdir/deepdir/foo.txt"). > > Press M-x shell RET > > A shell window will appear but there is nothing in it - no prompt no > nothing. Entered Commands will not have any effects. > "COMSPEC=C:\\WINDOWS\\COMMAND.COM")) Thank you for your report. Unfortunately COMMAND.COM is not Free Software, so the Emacs developers cannot do anything about its limitations. I tried to reproduce this with CMD.EXE (the native shell of NT and its derivatives), and it does not happen, so it would appear that COMMAND.COM is the source of the problem.