nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence) (11/17/89)
In article <1989Nov16.153204.10926@chinet.chi.il.us> megabyte@chinet.chi.il.us (Dr. Megabyte) writes: >Help! I've been happily using pc micro emacs version 3.9 for years now >on my IBM pc, but now we have installed IBM PC Lan V1.30 and everytime >I run emacs I get a > >Net 803: Network Path Not Found >Abort, Retry, Fail? > >error. This is weird! emacs.exe and emacs.rc are located in my c:\lcmds >directory which is in my PATH statement. To boot, there are no network >directories in my PATH. At the time this occurs, MicroEMACS is probably searching all the directories on the path looking for a startup file. Try playing with your path and see if you can isolate it to a particular device or directory. I suspect that it will have something to do with one of the network drives. >Now, this only happens when I run PC LAN 1.3 Extended Services. When I'm >running as a stand alone PC, micro-emacs works fine. When I run under >PC LAN base services, I can run micro-emacs fine, but when I run the >extended services, I get the error message. > >Here is the kicker: Of course, I get my 'C;\' prompt back when I pick >'Abort', I get the same message again when I 'Retry', but when I >'Fail' emacs goes on and runs as if nothing had happened!! When you hit fail, DOS returns a failure on the open, emacs assums it can't get a startup file there... and on it goes. >Now, I guess I could just hit an 'f' everytime I run emacs and learn >to live with it, but I can't help but feel something can and should >be done about it. agreed, this sounds ugly. >Does anyone have a fix for this or at least some ideas on why I might >be getting this error? Any help would ne appreciated. Also some networks, NETWARE v2.0 and below, mis implimented the DOS $4B EXEC call... it ended up trashing the STACK, thus emacs hung whenever it went to execute things. I fixed this in 3.10 with a special define and some assembly code to save/restore the stack around the call. >Mark E. Sunderlin: IRS Technocrat in Winchester, VA I am not sure exactly what this can be, but if you will assist by answering the hords of questions I am likely to ask, I will try to help you hunt it down. Daniel Lawrence voice: (317) 742-5153 arpa: dan@midas.mgmt.purdue.edu The Programmer's Room Fido: 1:201/10 - (317) 742-5533