Re: [h-e-w] I found a way to list the c:/ directory

[Paul Whitfield]

Dr Francis J. Wright wrote:

> From: "Chris McMahan" <address@hidden>
> To: "NTEmacs" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:52 PM
> Subject: [h-e-w] I found a way to list the c:/ directory
>
>
>
> > For some time I've had an issue with dired and c:/ directory.
> >
> > Whenever I use an external ls program the c:/ directory would bug out
> > because the cygwin ls program inserted the following error message in
> > the directory listing
> >
> > ls: c:/pagefile.sys: No such file or directory
> >
> > which caused dired to choke.
>
>
> I think that's a bug in Cygwin ls, and I thought it was fixed a long time
> ago, but I see it's still there.  


Just for reference it seems to be fixed in recent releases.

I just tried it and it works for me, both in Cygwin and in emacs
using cygwin ls

Regards
Paul