From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56483 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: make.bat on Windows 9x/ME Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:27:47 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078183876 7980 80.91.224.253 (1 Mar 2004 23:31:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5024@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Mar 02 00:31:11 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AxwsR-00089e-00 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2004 00:31:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AxwsJ-000118-00; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:31:03 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AxwsF-000113-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:30:59 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF693A0061 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:30:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AxwsD-0003Id-00 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2004 00:30:57 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rrcs-midsouth-24-199-139-18.biz.rr.com Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1078183857 12313 24.199.139.18 (1 Mar 2004 23:30:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:30:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nMERXZH/T0Z/NSejgQpnVbV3F8U= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56483 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56483 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