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From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: Laurent Langlois <Laurent.Langlois@adacel.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: In Win(/XP), command 'mail' creates empty mail buffer and error "Opening output file: invalid argument...".
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:01:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v97ig5oc8o.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1955-Thu13Mar2008095550-0500-Laurent.Langlois@adacel.com> (Laurent Langlois's message of "Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:55:50 -0500")

On Thu, Mar 13 2008, Laurent Langlois wrote:

>   2- the following error message in the mini-buffer:
>
>        Opening output file: invalid argument, d:/Laurent/#*mail*#2268xvT#

Sounds like this problem:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/90166/focus=90493>

> In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/gnuwin32/include'

The latest pretest (22.1.92) should include a patch for this:
<ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/>

Bye, Reiner.
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-14 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-13 14:55 In Win(/XP), command 'mail' creates empty mail buffer and error "Opening output file: invalid argument..." Laurent Langlois
2008-03-14 10:01 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2008-03-14 12:27   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-15  1:26     ` Jason Rumney
2008-03-15 11:39       ` Reiner Steib
     [not found] <mailman.8850.1205432993.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-14  7:56 ` Martin Fischer
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2008-03-14 19:16 Laurent Langlois

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