Re: [dired/19.19] bug when acting on multiple long-named files

sandy@ibm550.sissa.it
Mon, 9 May 1994 15:48:22 +0200


>>>>> On Fri, 6 May 1994 14:03:03 +0100,
      Jens Petersen <J.Petersen@qmw.ac.uk> said:

 > Then if you now try to act on them (with `C', `D', or `R', etc)
 > then you will get a error in the minibuffer echo area:

 > 	arithmetic error

 > and no action. The only thing to do then is either to rename them
 > to shorter filenames! or to act on them individually.

 > Probably it's easy to fix, but I haven't tried/had time to look
 > at it ;-) Or is this due to bugs in Emacs 19.19?

Yep.  I know.  It's fixed, along with lots of other things in the next
version.  I'm slaving through all outstanding bugs to get the next
version out asap.  I had hoped to catch up this weekend, but our
system here went down with hardware troubles Sat. morning, and only
recently came back up.  So it goes...

--sandy