From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Klaus Berndl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: command.com versus cmd.exe Date: 13 Sep 2002 10:49:32 +0200 Organization: sd&m AG, Muenchen, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031907995 11143 127.0.0.1 (13 Sep 2002 09:06:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:06:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17pmPK-0002ta-00 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:06:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17pmOy-00078b-00; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 05:06:12 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!lnewspeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!news.sdm.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: hickerstall.muc.sdm.de Original-X-Trace: solti3.muc.sdm.de 1031906972 5914 193.102.183.204 (13 Sep 2002 08:49:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.sdm.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Sep 2002 08:49:32 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104866 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1421 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1421 On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Kai Großjohann wrote: > Zhongtao Zhu writes: > > > By building Emacs from the nt/ directory in MS Windows, every thing > > works successfully well. I now check the variable `shell-file-name' in > > my machine it is set with "D:/emacs/bin/cmdproxy.exe". > > Cool, then I can just use that! Hm. If you do not need the distinction between cmd.exe and command.com for special purposes (do not know) nut only a mechanism to execute stuff with the windows-system then you should definitely use cmdproxy.exe. I agree completely with Zhongtao! Klaus -- Klaus Berndl mailto: klaus.berndl@sdm.de sd&m AG http://www.sdm.de software design & management Thomas-Dehler-Str. 27, 81737 München, Germany Tel +49 89 63812-392, Fax -220