From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Listing directory failes Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 17:59:38 +1000 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87k5i07y1h.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <68ofr3F2tgac1U1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210581717 5669 80.91.229.12 (12 May 2008 08:41:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 08:41:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 12 10:42:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1JvTc5-0005nd-8i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 10:42:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40994 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JvTbM-0004Qs-Dw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 04:41:44 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.internode!news.posted.internode.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 02:59:43 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rEPA1GH6vySWvqzDnDYdbaGOXPQ= Original-Lines: 20 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 121.44.98.229 Original-X-Trace: sv3-vFgJJrxRy/C3N9oERCgr5OwXFJBtQl/USgaNLW1no0OObUiuZcJB2FOQLR5v+R3FHzMiG+IO5bt49vT!yHuopyXWSEVbf2xa11/4CVpx/UAj6f26NZeJZMh+IiBnZuc21s296HC4+0Y6tZ/aAZ3N7w2FLQ== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158552 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53917 Archived-At: "Paul Batt" writes: > I installed Emacs 22.1 for NSLU2/Unslung (an embedded Linux) and when I do > Ctrl-X F I get the usural "Find file: ~/" and after pressing Ret "Listing > directory failed but 'access-file' worked". Something seems to be missing, > but what? I'm no expert; where should I look? Thanks a lot, > Paul > > By default, I think dired uses/relies on the 'ls' function of the shell. This may not be available on an embedded system or it may be providing output in a format not familiar to dired. Try switching to using the emulation of ls in elisp - check the customize options for dired and ls-lisp. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au