Re: UUdecode and NTemacs

[Fabrice POPINEAU <popineau@esemetz.ese-metz.fr>]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

    Lars> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
    >> On this Fabrice is correct; neither COMMAND.COM nor CMD.EXE
    >> (the two Windows command interpreters) support CD with a drive
    >> spec.  

That may be the explanation for what follows.

    >> 4DOS and 4NT do with the CDD command, but they are comercial
    >> add-on shells.  Also, COMMAND.COM does not have a command
    >> separator character at all; not sure about CMD.EXE.  4DOS and
    >> 4NT do; it is "^".

    Lars> Well, I don't use GatesOS.  

I wonder if I will ever be forgiven for running it :-)

    Lars> Could someone mail me patches for these things?

I tried to debug this some weeks ago and was puzzled. Last weekn, I
thought that I had the solution, and I'm still puzzled. In fact, the
standard code *almost* works, provided you have:

(setq gnus-shell-command-separator "&")

But I'm getting various errors after the first "X u" processing, like:

- can't remove gnus-uu-work-dir
- try to select destroyed buffer when decoding in another group,
- ...

What is really strange is that if I apply the following patch,
everything is OK:

--- gnus-uu.el~ Thu Mar 13 01:29:04 1997
+++ g:/local/emacs/site-lisp/gnus/lisp/gnus-uu.el       Mon Apr 07 09:50:16 1997

@@ -1416,9 +1416,10 @@
                        (start-process
                         "*uudecode*"
                         (get-buffer-create gnus-uu-output-buffer-name)
-                        shell-file-name shell-command-switch
-                        (format "cd %s %s uudecode" gnus-uu-work-dir
-                                gnus-shell-command-separator))))
+;                       shell-file-name shell-command-switch
+;                       (format "cd %s %s uudecode" gnus-uu-work-dir
+;                               gnus-shell-command-separator))))
+                        "uudecode")))
              (cd cdir)))
          (set-process-sentinel
           gnus-uu-uudecode-process 'gnus-uu-uudecode-sentinel)

May be this code should be conditionalized by the shell-file-name's
value:

(string-match "cmd\\.exe" shell-file-name)


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