dired-do-shell-command `!'

J.H.Petersen (J.Petersen@qmw.ac.uk)
Tue, 22 Feb 1994 12:40:18 GMT


Hi,

I hope it's ok to ask about `dired' here?

Why is it that when I try to `tar xvf' a file in dired (with
`!') I get:

	tar: cannot open texfiles.tar.
?


Also the recursive deleting doesn't seem to work too well for
me. When I try to delete a non-empty directory I get:

(error Failed to recusively delete /nfs/alpha/mnt_c7d2s4/ugap114/tex/tmp)

1 of 1 deletion failed:
	Tue Feb 22 12:33:31 1994	Buffer `tex'

Similarly if a do `! rm -r RET' on the directory tmp/, the
deletion fails to work (it used to under the dired that
comes FSF 19).

-Jens