From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10635 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Hoskins Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: UUdecode and NTemacs Date: 07 Apr 1997 15:58:58 -0400 Sender: rmh@interlaced.net Message-ID: References: <199704040859.KAA27807@esemetz.ese-metz.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.105) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150472 25499 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:47:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:47:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA14420 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 13:10:47 -0700 Original-Received: from sorites.net (rmh@ts3-p02.interlaced.net [207.170.155.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:59:15 +0200 Original-Received: (from rmh@localhost) by sorites.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA01603; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 15:59:00 -0400 Original-To: "(ding)" In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of 07 Apr 1997 12:45:28 -0400 Original-Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.41/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10635 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10635 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > DJGPP builds DOS programs, not Win32 console programs. This is a problem > because GNU Emacs on Win32 platforms can have exactly one DOS program > running underneath it. Start bash.exe and try to invoke your DOS uudecode > program and Emacs will lock up, and you will not be able to break out. > > There are several Win32 console mode shells out there (the NTEmacs FAQ > mentions at least two), but like 4DOS and 4NT they are not standard shells. > Cygnus has a Win32 bash. I have used it with NTEmacs on Win 95 with few significant problems. http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/