From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: In Win(/XP), command 'mail' creates empty mail buffer and error "Opening output file: invalid argument...". Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:27:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1955-Thu13Mar2008095550-0500-Laurent.Langlois@adacel.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205497671 21105 80.91.229.12 (14 Mar 2008 12:27:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:27:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Laurent.Langlois@adacel.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Reiner Steib Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 14 13:28:19 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 1Ja91A-0002NA-DD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:28:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ja90a-00034m-T5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:27:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ja90V-00031X-0n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ja90S-00030u-Pe for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:27:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ja90S-00030o-MH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:27:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout4.012.net.il ([84.95.2.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ja90S-0007al-DT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:27:28 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([80.230.199.17]) by i_mtaout4.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0JXQ007NJ0KBDTP1@i_mtaout4.012.net.il> for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:41:00 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:17714 Archived-At: > From: Reiner Steib > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:01:43 +0100 > Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > 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# > > Sounds like this problem: > No, I don't think so: the above was reported in Emacs running on a Posix platform and accessing an NTFS volume. Whereas this report is for a Windows port of Emacs, which already avoids characters (such as `*') that Windows filesystems disallow. Personally, I'm clueless as to how this problem could ever happen in the native Windows build of Emacs.