From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: ielm uses the cat program Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:15:41 +0100 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030131000858.C8B6.LEKTU@terra.es> References: <3E397C20.6090509@ihs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043968545 24249 80.91.224.249 (30 Jan 2003 23:15:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:15:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org 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 18eNuI-0006Ih-00 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:15:42 +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 18eNve-00044u-06 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:17:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18eNuw-0003tF-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:16:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18eNuR-0003Yt-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:15:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailbox1.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.53]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18eNuN-0003OR-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:15:47 -0500 Original-Received: from tsmtp6.mail.isp (smtp.terra.es [213.4.129.129]) by mailbox1.ucsd.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0UNFhZ8011373 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:15:43 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [80.36.30.211] ([80.36.30.211]) by tsmtp6.mail.isp (terra.es) with ESMTP id H9JVA300.5C0; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:15:39 +0100 Original-To: Kevin Rodgers In-Reply-To: <3E397C20.6090509@ihs.com> X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.05.06 X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.7 10535 h0UNFhZ8011373 mailbox1.ucsd.edu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4356 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4356 On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:25:20 -0700 Kevin Rodgers wrote: > If hexl is distributed with Emacs, how could start-process signal a file-error? The user could delete hexl, if he doesn't use hexl-mode and doesn't want to have the binary 'round. It's a long shot, but it is certainly posible. Also, it could have failed building for some reason or other. > And if it doess, why is cat considered a viable fallback? I don't know, I didn't write the code, but I suppose the reasoning is that one or the other are very likely to be around... and if they don't, well, you'll get an error anyway. -- Juanma Barranquero