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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: Bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug?
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:44:48 +0300 (IDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020829074225.26003B-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF1971F8DE.B77957FB-ON88256C23.00609C1A@wr.usgs.gov>


On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Sharon A Watkins wrote:

> I am running emacs on a WinOS system a getting an annoying error message:
> 
> "Creating directory:  permission denied, c:\.emacs.d"
> 
> I've tried making the directory for emacs as administrator, but WinOS
> doesn't
> like directories that start with a period.

That's not true: it's only some Windows applications, notably the 
Explorer, prevent you from creating such directories and files.  But the 
Windows filesystem itself is perfectly happy with names like .emacs.d.

So the problem lies elsewhere.  Can you post the output of the command 
"dir c:\" typed from a DOS box?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-08-29  4:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-28 17:41 Bug? Sharon A Watkins
2002-08-29  1:38 ` Bug? Juanma Barranquero
2002-08-29  4:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-23 11:07 Bug? Mark Espinoza
2005-03-07 16:35 bug ? fg
2010-05-12 12:50 bug? J. David Boyd
2010-05-12 13:35 ` bug? Bernt Hansen
2010-05-12 14:32   ` bug? J. David Boyd
2012-12-04 16:53 Bug? Charles
2012-12-04 19:12 ` Bug? Achim Gratz
2012-12-05  1:20   ` Bug? Charles
2014-02-06 10:15 Bug: "#+STARTUP: content" shows text as well as headlines [8.2.5h (8.2.5h-elpa @ ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org/) Paul Stansell
2014-02-06 10:42 ` Bastien
2014-02-06 11:38   ` Bastien
2014-03-06 17:32     ` Bug: Paul Stansell
2014-05-06 14:47 Bug?? Susan Cragin
2014-05-06 15:28 ` Bug?? Maurice
2014-05-06 21:30   ` Bug?? Suvayu Ali
2014-05-07 16:15 ` Bug?? Achim Gratz
2017-06-20 13:38 bug? John Kitchin
2017-06-29 14:36 ` bug? Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-30  0:53   ` bug? John Kitchin
2017-07-01 12:30     ` bug? Nicolas Goaziou
     [not found] <875y9aciir.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2023-05-03  1:26 ` Bug? Po Lu
2023-05-03  9:40   ` Bug? Mattias Engdegård
2023-05-03 10:12     ` Bug? Mattias Engdegård
2023-05-03 11:24       ` Bug? Shynur Xie
2023-05-03 12:27         ` Bug? Mattias Engdegård
2023-05-03 17:22           ` Bug? Juri Linkov
2023-05-03 11:24       ` Bug? Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-03 11:26         ` Bug? Shynur Xie
2023-05-04  8:35         ` Bug? Shynur Xie
2023-05-04 20:57         ` Bug? Shynur Xie
2023-05-05  4:41           ` Bug? Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-05 16:18             ` Bug? Shynur Xie
2023-05-06 10:44           ` Bug? Mattias Engdegård
2023-05-06 14:58             ` Bug? Shynur Xie
2023-05-06 15:24               ` Bug? Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-07 11:08               ` Bug? Mattias Engdegård
2023-05-07 12:05                 ` Bug? Po Lu
2023-05-07 12:17                   ` Bug? Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-07 12:54                     ` Bug? Po Lu
2023-05-07 13:36                     ` Bug? Shynur Xie
2023-05-07 13:51                       ` Bug? Mattias Engdegård
2023-05-07 14:42                         ` Bug? Shynur Xie
2023-05-07 15:06                           ` Bug? Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-03 11:23     ` Bug? Eli Zaretskii

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