Re: [h-e-w] win2k non-stop retries to create directory on c:/.emacs.d

[Ken Goldman]

There used to be strange problems with HOME being a top level
directory.  It was an interaction when running external programs
(grep, shell, ispell) where emacs would see the colon and try to start
ange-ftp and cause a long timeout.

I found it better to set home to something like d:\home

> From: Chris McMahan <address@hidden>
> Cc: "'address@hidden'" <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:03:51 -0400
> 
> You might try setting the home environment variable to d:/ within your
> emacs and see if that makes a difference.


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