Problem with ESS 21, S-Plus 6 on Windows 2000

[Rich Heiberger]

1.  From the ntemacs C-h f
> w32-short-file-name is a built-in function.
> (w32-short-file-name FILENAME)
> 
> Return the short file name version (8.3) of the full path of FILENAME.
> If FILENAME does not exist, return nil.
> All path elements in FILENAME are converted to their short names.

We use it avoid the problems that show up with embedded blanks in file
names.  I would hope that xemacs has a way to solve that problem.

The short names are automatically printed by the MSDOS dir command
in w98 and w95, and printed when you enter a switch on w2000.  I think
it is    dir/x   but I am not working on my w2000 machine right now to
verify.

I would appreciate it if you, or another user of xemacs for windows,
would search the xemacs lisp code for a function that finds the short
names.  I will then install it into ESS.  Since this is a built-in
function, it is not possible to just move the lisp code over to xemacs.


2.  Interactive graphics is not possible with Sqpe as distributed by
Insightful and therefore not with M-x Sqpe.  We document this in the
installation instructions for ESS:

   C-h i               for *info*
   C-s ess RET RET     for ESS
   m installation RET
   m Microsoft RET
   C-s interactive     read this paragraph

This is a design characteristic of the Windows port of S-Plus.
Interactive graphics is only available with the GUI.  Sqpe permits
batch-style graphics, for example with the postscript().

You can use Sqpe and postscript() for delayed-interactive graphics.

a. start the postscript() or trellis.device(postscript)

b. plot two graphs,
      plot(1:10)
      plot(11:20)

c. Go to the dired for your working directory and locate the
ps.out.0001.ps file.  The dired will not show the .ps file until the
second plot is sent from S-Plus.  Once the second plot is sent, the
file will appear and show 0 bytes.

d. Open the 0-byte file with ghostview.  The first plot is visible.

e. Send the third plot from S-Plus
      plot(21:10)

f. Go back to ghostview and click on the graph.  The file will reload
and now the first and second plots are visible.

Rich
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