RE: [h-e-w] gnuserv problem

[Eli Daniel]

What gnuserv package are you using?  The “latest and greatest” that’s linked from the FAQ has some problems (or more precisely, it appears that there’s a bug in Windows 2000 exposed by this gnuserv).  Some people see the problem, some don’t – it seems to depend on exactly what patch level of Windows 2000 you have.  I don’t remember exactly what the symptoms were, but it sounds similar to what you’re reporting.

 

I found two workarounds:

 

1 - Totally ridiculous: After starting Emacs, launch a debugger (I used VC++) and attach it to the gnuserv process.  You don’t actually have to do anything with the debugger… just having gnuserv running in the debugger made it work.

 

2 - Less ridiculous: use an old version of gnuserv/gnuclient that uses mailslots for its interprocess communication instead of sockets.  You should be able to find this with google.

 

-Eli

 

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Windhorn, Allen, E. [LS/MKT]
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 6:03 PM
To: 'address@hidden'
Subject: RE: [h-e-w] gnuserv problem

 

Hi all,

I'm having trouble with gnuserv also...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eli Daniel [mailto:address@hidden]
>
> Just to clarify, I assume you're invoking gnuclient
> (or gnuclientw) to open the file on the command line,
> not gnuserv, right?
>
> I get just the behavior it sounds like you want
> (though mine is configured to open everything in a
> single frame instead of opening new ones).  The only
> gnuserv-related configuration I have is this:
>
> (setenv "GNUSERV_SHOW_EMACS" "1")
> (require 'gnuserv)
> (setq gnuserv-frame (selected-frame))
> (gnuserv-start)

I have exactly this configuration with V21.2.  I have set in Windows 2000:

assoc .txt=txtfile
ftype txtfile=c:\emacs-21.2\bin\gnuclientw.exe %1

When I double click a text file a new window opens, but with no file in it.  The minibuffer says "server process exited."

Thanks for any help.

Regards,
Allen