From bernhard@informix.com Thu Jan 9 10:21:44 1997 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil t nil nil nil nil] [nil "Thu" " 9" "January" "1997" "10:21:28" "-0800" "Bernhard Brandmair" "bernhard@informix.com" "<32D53728.3E54@informix.com>" "44" "Re: Emacs and Clearcase on NT 4.0" "^From:" nil nil "1" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from angular.illustra.com (angular.illustra.com [192.207.88.1]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.8.3+CSE/7.2ju) with ESMTP id KAA09340 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:21:44 -0800 Received: from olympus.illustra.com (olympus.illustra.com [192.207.88.226]) by angular.illustra.com (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA21945; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:21:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc261dl.illustra.com by olympus.illustra.com (5.x/smail2.5/06-10-94/S) id AA10270; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:21:40 -0800 Message-Id: <32D53728.3E54@informix.com> Reply-To: bernhard@informix.com Organization: Informix Software, Inc. X-Sender: Bernhard Brandmair (Unverified) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b1 (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: Normal References: <32D533A7.13B2@informix.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Bernhard Brandmair To: Geoff Voelker Subject: Re: Emacs and Clearcase on NT 4.0 Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 10:21:28 -0800 Geoff, this is caused by VC mode. After I dsiabled loading of clearcase mode, it worked fine! -Bernhard Bernhard Brandmair wrote: > > Geoff, > > I found another Emacs problem related to Clearcase file systems > on NT 4.0. Atria's clearcase is installed on my NT 4.0 system. > Whenever I try to open either a directory or a file, I get on > my first attempt a > > Spawning child process: invalid argument > > When I do the same operation again, it works without an error. > > Example: > I'm in dired, h:/ is a clearcase file system > > h:/client/tools: > total 0 > drwxrwxrwx 2 mks 5 0 Oct 16 1996 . > drwxrwxrwx 2 mks 5 0 Oct 16 1996 .. > drwxrwxrwx 2 mks 5 0 Jan 09 09:34 proposals > > When I type "e" on proposals, I get the first time the error > message and stay in the current diretcory. When I press "e" again, > it opens the proposals directory. The same applies to files. > > Pressing "g" on any directory on a clearcase file system always > displays the error message. > > I'm also running clearcase on my unix box, and emacs behaves just > fine there. > > Thanks > -- > Bernhard Brandmair tel (510) 873 7518 > Informix Software Inc. fax (510) 873 6280 > http://www.informix.com mailto:bernhard@informix.com