RE: [h-e-w] Network switching with GNUClient & GNUServ

[Eli Daniel]

Francis Wright has a copy of Nico François' gnuserv port (which uses
mailslots) here:

http://centaur.maths.qmw.ac.uk/Emacs/files/gnuserv.zip

This is the version I'm using with great success.

-Eli

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf
Of David Vanderschel
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:29 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Network switching with GNUClient & GNUServ


On Wednesday, July 07, "Ludwig, Mark" <address@hidden> wrote:
>I use Emacs on my Windows laptop.  I have added the registry stuff so I 
>have an "Edit with Emacs" option on the context menu for every file 
>type; this invokes path\gnuclientw.exe -q -F "%L" and works great as 
>long as the same network interface(s) are active that were when the 
>server was started.  When the network interfaces come or go, the GNU 
>Client seems unable to communicate with the server, or the server is 
>unable to manipulate Emacs.

>Has anyone else noticed this - and solved it?

Yes.  There are two versions of gnuserv - one which
uses TCP/IP and one which uses mailboxes for
communication.  Problems such as you have observed
will affect the former.  (Mine breaks if I just tell
ZoneAlarm to shut down 'net access.)  You would
probably be happier with the mailbox version.
Unfortunately, I can no longer find that one in the
place where I originally got it.  Perhaps someone else
knows from where it can be downloaded nowadays.

Regards,
  David V.