Re: Emacs 21.3.50 grep.el/executable.el problems

[Stefan Monnier]

> In my experience, on a Windows system this problem is pretty frequent,
> and when it happens, the error message that comes from the non-Posix
> `find' is so cryptic that even occasional gurus get confused.

Is it possible for Emacs to recognize this cryptic thing?
Maybe we could give a meaningful message after running `find' rather
than before.
Is MS-find the only real source of problem?  If so, is its absolute file
name always the same?


        Stefan