From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: In Win(/XP), command 'mail' creates empty mail buffer and error "Opening output file: invalid argument...". Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:26:15 +0000 Message-ID: <47DB25B7.70503@gnu.org> References: <1955-Thu13Mar2008095550-0500-Laurent.Langlois@adacel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205544403 22424 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2008 01:26:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:26:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Laurent.Langlois@adacel.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Reiner Steib To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 15 02:27:11 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JaLAz-00035Q-V0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:27:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JaLAQ-00072k-CX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JaLAM-00072V-3m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:26:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JaLAH-00071c-1U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:26:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JaLAG-00071V-SW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:26:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JaLAD-0001IZ-4R; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:26:21 -0400 Original-X-Trace: 63915866/mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjQBABzC2kdTQxds/2dsb2JhbAAIqUY X-IP-Direction: OUT Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO [192.168.249.28]) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 15 Mar 2008 01:26:18 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17719 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> 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# > > > Personally, I'm clueless as to how this problem could ever happen in > the native Windows build of Emacs. > My mail from the last few days is coming through out of order and severely delayed, so I haven't seen the original report yet. Could it be that the user is running the Cygwin version of Emacs?