No Windows File Dialogue in Win98SE

[Juergen Fenn]

  I tried to open a file in NTEmacs 22.1 on Windows 98 SE by selecting
  File|Open File with the mouse. The dialogue did not appear. Instead,
  I was prompted to input the path and file name in the
  minibuffer. This can be reproduced. Eli Zaretskii wrote on
  gmane.emacs.windows this is not what it's supposed to be. He does
  not observe this on more recent versions of Windows.


In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-windows98.2222)
 of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 4.10.2222
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/gnuwin32/include'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: DE
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  show-paren-mode: t
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-decoding-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
M-x g n u s <return> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> q y <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <file> <open-file> <escape> 
<escape> <escape> M-x r e p o r t SPC e m a c s SPC 
b u g <return>

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