KARNEY%PPC.MFENET@NMFECC.ARPA.UUCP (02/04/87)
> From: SYSTEM@CUNYVMS1.BITNET@nmfecc.arpa > Subject: GNU Emacs on VMS4.4 > Date: Tue, 3 Feb 87 21:38 EST > Recently a user brought in GNU Emacs to be installed on our > VAX 11/780 under VMS 4.4 > After successful installation and testing we found that the Version17 > had a minor bug vis-a-vis: While exiting and saving through C-x C-c > it leave a line-feed or a Carriage-Return. Which was later modified > by changing "rfm=var" to "rfm=stmls" in FILEIO.C and recompiling > After that We could not save files using C-x C-c. It creates a file > of the same name but of 0 records length. > It gives errors also such as file is write-protected !!!! > Do any one out there have any ideas ? suggestion ? > AM Very scared to put the VERSION 18 up, before this is resolved. We are successfully running GNU Emacs version 17.VMS-4. Besides making the "rfm=stmlf" change, we also changed [0,0] to [000000] in FILEIO.C. Without this, access checks on rooted directories fail. This may explain the write-protection errors you got. Charles Karney Karney%PPC.MFENET@NMFECC.ARPA