Problem with ESS 21, S-Plus 6 on Windows 2000
Jeff Mincy
jeff at delphioutpost.com
Wed Jun 19 21:22:51 CEST 2002
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, rmh at surfer.sbm.temple.edu wrote:
> 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.
The function is builtin (defined at least since 2.1.13 in ntproc.c)
in windows xemacs.
i* win32-short-file-name - Return the short file name version (8.3) of the full path of FILENAME.
The function is not defined in the unix xemacs.
-jeff
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