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Re: [h-e-w] OFF TOPIC! - Help: NT Emacs and the SendTo menu behaviour...
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John McCabe |
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Re: [h-e-w] OFF TOPIC! - Help: NT Emacs and the SendTo menu behaviour... |
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Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:36:48 +0100 |
Jeremy
The tone of your response isn't appreciated. Many others have been very
helpful on the list, and it doesn't exaclty take a lot of effort just to
ignore messages that come in from it - I certainly do so on a lot of
occasions.
On this occasion I believed I had a problem with Emacs although now it
doesn't look like that is the case. The fact that my configuration of Win98
and other people's configurations of Win98 (including one I have at work)
behave differently obviously show that installing gnuserv/gnuclient is
*NOT* the solution to the problem - there is obviously something more
fundamental in my Windows setup, so your comments about installing
gnuserv/gnuclient are, clearly, irrelevant nonsense, especially as I have
now (last night) discovered at least one other, non-GPL, program which
behaves in this way - is gnuserv/gnuclient going to sort out the problem
with *that* program? Clearly not!
As far as the question about Microsoft support prices, you have clearly
missed the point. The fact that the program in question is Emacs (as you
mention, a GPL program) is irrelevant, as I now (as I mentioned) know I
have at least one other non-GLP program that gives the same behaviour, so
the question I would ask of Microsoft is "what is used to determine how
many instances of a program are executed when multiple files are passed to
a 'SendTo' item"!
Of course I realise the thread *has* gone off-topic, but I felt it was as
much a closing courtesy as anything to point out to those who have been
HELPFUL what I think I might do next.
So, basically, if you're not going to post something helpful in relation to
a discussion (which I haven't seen you doing recently), just don't post
anything at all!
> > From: John McCabe [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 4:24 PM
>
> > One thing that has been nagging at me is the possibility that, if
> > runemacs.exe is a DOS based program, could there be something in my
> > Autoexec.bat or config.sys that could be affecting this?
>
> Why not stop wasting everyone's time and simply install "gnuserv". This is
> the right tool for the job and it's the correct way of achieving what you
> want. The fact that SendTo works at all with runemacs at the moment is
> probably more good luck than design.
>
> Why not just accept that your observed behaviour is simply just the way
> "Windows98" works. Trying to understand how Micro$oft writes code is
> rewarding in the same way that banging your head against a wall is
> rewarding. You get the most benefit from it when you stop!
>
> You've got so much unknown cruft going on under the hood of Windoze already
> that using gnuserv must surely be an improvement. It is widely used and well
> understood and is NOT going to be doing "even more things that you don't
> want it to". It will be doing EXACTLY what you want it to do.
>
> Goddamnit the whole gnuserv package is less than 120k UNCOMPRESSED. You'd
> waste far more resources simply by installing a service pack for Win98.
>
> You've asked for help and have been given the solution. Anything else should
> be directed to the "help-windows" mailing list (no I don't know where this
> is) as it ceased to be an emacs problem a long time ago.
>
> > One other thing is does anyone know how much Microsoft charges for a
> > support call :-)
>
> Right. Like Micro$oft is going to help you with a GPL'd program. ROTFL!!!
>
Best Regards
John McCabe