I'm not sure this was actually sent so I'm sending it again. This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2002-03-19 on buffy configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: Ediff no longer seems to be working. I'm not sure but it may be a cygwin interaction. The ediff error message I get is this: /bin/diff.exe: c:DOCUME~1dashLOCALS~1TempcropSim.java1216IMH: No such file or directory /bin/diff.exe: c:DOCUME~1dashLOCALS~1TempcropSim.java1216Fgf: No such file or directory It would seem the directory slashes are missing. Any additional information that is required don't hesitate to ask for. Thanks Dan Recent input: C-x C-f c : SPC u s e SPC d a SPC p r SPC SPC c r o SPC / c r o p SPC s i m SPC . j j SPC C-x 2 C-x C-f 2 / c o r p r o p s i SPC j SPC x e d i f SPC SPC b SPC Recent messages: Making completion list... Loading cc-mode...done Fontifying cropSim.java... (regexps.............) Loading cc-mode...done Fontifying cropSim.java<2>... (regexps.............) Loading ediff...done Computing differences between cropSim.java1216IMH and cropSim.java1216Fgf ... ediff-prepare-error-list: Errors in diff output. Diff output is in # Loading emacsbug...done