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[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "tony" == A J Rossini <rossini at blindglobe.net> writes:

    tony> I think we should be able to correct this at some point real soon
    tony> now...  (i.e. add a 
    tony> (if stupid-windows-os (replace "/" "//" string))
    tony> type statement).

    tony> The other thought would be to not use C-c C-l.
No!!
    tony> What "use-case" are you doing to use that?  I never seem to need that
    tony> particular function, but rather C-c C-b (i.e. load in the file into an
    tony> Emacs buffer and dump from there).

    tony> Is it the increased slowness from the latter approach that makes you
    tony> use the former?

no; I've been advertizing C-c C-l  quite a bit for a long while.
The nice thing is: it's quiet (no output in *R*) but when there's an error
you get a very helpful message with an often correct line numer where the
error happened. Very useful for largish files.

Martin
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