Re: [h-e-w] EmacsW32 problem -- ls -al under eshell doesn't work

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Derek Kivi <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Derek Kivi <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>> > I have just switched to using Vista and am trying out EmacsW32 for
>> the first
>> > time.
>>
>> Hi Derek, hope you like it.
>>
>>
>> > One thing I have noticed is under eshell, when I try ls –al, I get
>> the
>> > following error:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > c:/Derek $ ls -al
>> >
>> > total 13025
>> >
>> > Wrong type argument: integerp, -2023488832.0
>>
>> This works for me using Windows XP. Could you please try the unpatched
>> binaries (just download the zip file for a quick check) and see if you
>> get the same problem there?
>>
>>
>> > However, ls, ls –a, and ls –l all seem to give the expected directory
>> > listing.
>
> Hi Lennart,
>
> Using the unpatched binaries (unzipped emacs-from-cvs-090226.zip and ran 
> runemacs.exe) gave the same behaviour. ls -al failed with that same wrong 
> type argument error, while ls, ls -a, ls -l all worked as expected.
>
> For your info I am running 64-bit Vista if that might make any difference.
>
> Thanks again,
> Derek

Then there are two things to test:

1) Start with "emacs -Q" and try "ls -a" in the same directory.

2) If it still fails then please report it as a bug (see the Help menu).

Otherwise try to find out what in your emacs init files that makes it fail.