From: Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>
Subject: Re: make.bat on Windows 9x/ME
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:27:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u8yikcfm4.fsf@xpediantsolutions.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9y8qkxrrm.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Michael Schierl reported that tests for directories like...
>
> if not exist %GNUS_ETC_DIR% mkdir %GNUS_ETC_DIR%
>
> ... don't work on Windows 9x/ME. Instead he suggested to test for the
> "nul" entry instead...
>
> if not exist %GNUS_ETC_DIR%\nul mkdir %GNUS_ETC_DIR%
>
> ... which works on Windows 9x/ME. Could someone test if the new
> version (I've just committed Michael's patch) works correctly on
> Windows NT/2k/XP, too?
Looking at it, I'd have to conclude that it can't work. However,
through the innovations of Microsoft this patch does work on Windows
XP.
Kevin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-01 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-01 19:59 Reiner Steib
2004-03-01 23:27 ` Kevin Greiner [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=u8yikcfm4.fsf@xpediantsolutions.com \
--to=kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).