From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: DOS-style filename in emacs 21.1 mode-line Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 06:28:34 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1858-Mon24Mar2003062834+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <34defe4d.0303231307.78a54cfa@posting.google.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048480680 2315 80.91.224.249 (24 Mar 2003 04:38:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 04:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 24 05:37:59 2003 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 18xJih-0000bB-00 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 05:37:59 +0100 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 18xJgn-0000cb-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:36:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xJgF-0008VU-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:35:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xJg3-0007tr-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:35:19 -0500 Original-Received: from aragorn.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xJfi-0007RS-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:35:02 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretsky ([80.230.234.59]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.2-GA) with ESMTP id AJR05887; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 06:34:52 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <34defe4d.0303231307.78a54cfa@posting.google.com> (jpwoodruff@irisinternet.net) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7842 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7842 > From: jpwoodruff@irisinternet.net (John Woodruff) > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > Date: 23 Mar 2003 13:07:57 -0800 > > On one occasion only -- when I drag & drop a file onto the Icon of a > not-started emacs -- the file name is written in the mode-line in the > old DOS notation of all-caps with 8 chars. > > Every other idiom for finding a file represents the name with full > charset. > > I am running the manufactured emacs from emacs-21.1-fullbin-i386 on > windows 98. > > Suggestion to resolve this very minor infelicity? I don't think you can do anything, short of upgrading your OS. This is a misfeature of Windows. What program does the icon have in its "command" window?