From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [eric.pement@moody.edu: ediff merge fails on Win2K - RESOLVED!] Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 21:05:13 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <9003-Tue01Apr2003210512+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030401083033.02fa8608@email.moody.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049221446 7164 80.91.224.249 (1 Apr 2003 18:24:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 18:24:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 01 20:24:01 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 190QMO-0001Zf-00 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2003 20:19:48 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 190QN5-0004in-00 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2003 20:20:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 190QMV-0007Cz-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2003 13:19:55 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 190QM1-00070d-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2003 13:19:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 190QJl-0005XX-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2003 13:17:06 -0500 Original-Received: from thor.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 190QFJ-0002oc-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2003 13:12:29 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretsky (adsl-ayalon-pc-128-36.inter.net.il [213.8.128.36]) by thor.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.2-GA) with ESMTP id AWN45666; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 21:12:13 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: eric.pement@moody.edu X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.2.20030401083033.02fa8608@email.moody.edu> (message from Eric Pement on Tue, 01 Apr 2003 08:58:57 -0600) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12808 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12808 > Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 08:58:57 -0600 > From: Eric Pement > > > >I suspect that the OP had a DOS port of Diffutils installed, and thus > >Windows invoked them thru the DOS shell COMMAND.COM, which indeed has > >that 126-char limit. If that's true, the solution is to install a > >native Windows port of Diffutils. > > Hello! I'm the original poster. IIRC, I got the version of diff3 from > from simtel.net, in the gnuish section. This confirms my suspicion: gnuish programs are DOS executables. So I suggest to find and install a native Windows port of Diffutils (yes, MinGW or Cygwin).