From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [eric.pement@moody.edu: ediff merge fails on Win2K - RESOLVED!]
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 21:05:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9003-Tue01Apr2003210512+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030401083033.02fa8608@email.moody.edu> (message from Eric Pement on Tue, 01 Apr 2003 08:58:57 -0600)
> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 08:58:57 -0600
> From: Eric Pement <eric.pement@moody.edu>
> >
> >I suspect that the OP had a DOS port of Diffutils installed, and thus
> >Windows invoked them thru the DOS shell COMMAND.COM, which indeed has
> >that 126-char limit. If that's true, the solution is to install a
> >native Windows port of Diffutils.
>
> Hello! I'm the original poster. IIRC, I got the version of diff3 from
> from simtel.net, in the gnuish section.
This confirms my suspicion: gnuish programs are DOS executables.
So I suggest to find and install a native Windows port of Diffutils
(yes, MinGW or Cygwin).
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2003-03-27 19:04 [eric.pement@moody.edu: ediff merge fails on Win2K - RESOLVED!] Richard Stallman
2003-03-27 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-03-28 15:20 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <5.1.0.14.2.20030401083033.02fa8608@email.moody.edu>
2003-04-01 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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