From regensbu@riemann.zfe.siemens.de Fri Jun 28 01:00:45 1996 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Fri" "28" "June" "1996" "10:04:19" "+0200" "Franz Regensburger" "regensbu@riemann.zfe.siemens.de" nil "26" "GNU-Emacs.19.31 Problem" "^From:" nil nil "6" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [146.254.1.1]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.5/7.2ju) with SMTP id BAA25497 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 01:00:43 -0700 Received: from ztivax.zfe.siemens.de (ztivax.siemens.de) by david.siemens.de with SMTP id AA11951 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Fri, 28 Jun 1996 10:00:38 +0200 Received: from riemann.zfe.siemens.de (riemann) by ztivax.zfe.siemens.de with SMTP id AA22652 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Fri, 28 Jun 1996 10:00:38 +0200 Received: (from regensbu@localhost) by riemann.zfe.siemens.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA11455 for voelker@cs.washington.edu; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 10:04:20 +0200 Message-Id: <199606280804.KAA11455@riemann.zfe.siemens.de> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL19 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Franz Regensburger To: voelker@cs.washington.edu Subject: GNU-Emacs.19.31 Problem Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 10:04:19 +0200 (MET DST) Hallo Geoff, I downloaded GNU-Emacs-19.31 a few days ago an managed to install it on my WIN95 PC without problems. Besides lot of fun and relief about the fact that I now have a reasonable editor on my PC, I've got a minor problem. - I CAN execute commands with shell-command M-! - I even CAN invoke an interactive DOS-shell M-x shell - but I CANNOT run the command shell-command-on-region M-| When I invoke e.g. 'M-| sort' with some portion of text marked in a region the system completely hangs. Another example is the command hexl-find-file which uses shell-command-on-region in the hexlify and dehexlify functions. It seams that piping the region into STDIN of the called process doesn't work. Since interactive shells work, which I guess was lots of work to make it run, I suppose that I just missed to customize some appropriate variable. Do you have some idea? Thanks a lot, Franz