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

[rob . davenport]

Hi John,

Sorry I don't have a win98 machine available to test this on.

You suggestion of copying shdocvw.dll and shdoc401.dll to your Win98
machine scares me.   Believe me when I say that could lead to no end of
trouble.  I spent a long weekend getting a friend's machine back to working
after something corrupted the shdocvw.dll on his machine - no Explorer,
no task bar, etc. and a lot of debugging to even figure that out.

Just copying them probably would fail and/or corrupt the system. You'd
have to register them at a minimum, as they contain the COM object servers
that provide many of the basics of the Explorer shell in Windows, and even
then that probably wouldn't work due to other missing file depencies.  (More
than just those files would need to be updated.)

You might try comparing revision levels of Internet Explorer on your machine.
(My guess is they both have 5.5 - but maybe the sevice pack levels are
different.)
If they are different, upgrading the IE on your Win98 machine might update
those files for you.  That would be the safest way of getting those files in
sync.
(Remember that Windows and Internet Explorer are still tightly coupled.)

Rob







"John McCabe" <address@hidden> on 04/24/2002 06:02:28 AM

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



> No need to - as I said earlier, if someone can convince me that Win98's
> SendTo behaviour is, by design or whatever, different from Win2k and Win95
> for no apparent reason and there's nothing in the Windows setup that can be
> adjusted to sort this out, then I may consider using gnuserv/gnuclient, but
> then, given that I really don't use Emacs a lot at home on my Win98 machine,
> I may just accept the inconvenience of using SendTo for the first file then
> dragging the rest into the now open frame!

I've had a look in the registry. In there is a CLSID of
{7BA4C740-9E81-11CF-99D3-00AA004AE837}
which identifies as "Microsoft SendTo Service".

On each machine the (Default) value in the InProcServer32 entry is:

Win2k: %systemroot%\system32\shell32.dll
Win95: c:\windows\system\shdocvw.dll
Win98: c:\windows\system\shdoc401.dll

Versions on each of the systems are:

                   Win2k            Win95          Win98
shell32.dll :  5.0.3315.2902   4.00.1111       Don't Know Yet
shdocvw.dll :  5.50.4913.1500  5.50.4522.1800  Don't Know Yet
shdoc401.dll:  Doesn't Exist   5.50.4522.1800  5.50.4134.600

Could this be the reason? The shdocvw.dll and shdoc401.dll files on Win95
have the same date and time as well as version (and are [probably], as you
can see, more recent than the version I have Win98). Perhaps if I copied
those to my Win98 system it would behave the same!

If anyone's using Win98 I'd appreciate it if you could check your registry
settings and these files for version numbers etc and let me know.
Especially if you can send multiple files to emacs without having multiple
instances created!

By the way - I just wanted to express my appreciation for the suggestions
I've had so far. I know at times I have probably appeared a bit rude about
it so please forgive me. It does seem however that we are getting somewhere
with this one, even though it's technically not an Emacs issue.

Best Regards
John McCabe