Re: [h-e-w] Help: NT Emacs and the SendTo menu behaviour...

[Raymond Zeitler]

I'd guess it has nothing to do with Emacs.  Try putting this simple batch
file into SendTo and using it:

rem This is invoked SendTo.
rem
echo file1=%1.>testing.out
echo file2=%2.>>testing.out
echo file3=%3.>>testing.out
echo file4=%4.>>testing.out
echo file5=%5.>>testing.out
echo file6=%6.>>testing.out
echo file7=%7.>>testing.out
pause

The file testing.out would be created in the System or System32 directory.
On my Win2K system, the output indicates that all selected files are sent to
a single instance of the batch file.  I'm looking forward to trying this on
my Win98 & WinNT partitions at home....  I've tried something like this on
NT before and got multiple instances, IIRC.

Also, since it came up in this discussion, I'd like to mention that I tried
Karel Sprenger's method for installing GnuServe & GnuClient, but I was not
able to get it to work.



From:   "John McCabe" <address@hidden>
To:     "address@hidden org" <address@hidden>
Date:   Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:18:01 +0100
Subject:        Re: [h-e-w] Help: NT Emacs and the SendTo menu behaviour...

> John McCabe wrote:
> 
>  > I know - I know - I know! I am aware of all of this, but that's not
>  > the issue - the issue was that on 2 machines (one Win2k, one Win95), >
>  when I "sendto" runemacs with multiple files selected, *one* instance >
of
>  Emacs is created with all the files loaded, whereas on another > machine
>  (Win98), each file is loaded into a separate instance!
> 
> What happens when you do
> 
>       > runemacs file1 file2
> 
> on each machine?

You know, this is really odd - I tried that on my Win2k machine this 
morning as an experiment, then both you and Francis have suggested it!

On the Win2k machine a single instance is created with both files loaded.
On the Win95 machine .... ditto ....
I'll try the Win98 machine this evening.

Best Regards
John McCabe