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This is a list of known problems to date with the Windows NT/95 port of
GNU Emacs.

* Handle wildcards in ls-lisp (e.g., C-x d *.c).

* Interactive subprocess output is buffered in jerky

* Presently, C:\foo\bar and C:/foo/bar bring up two buffers on the same file.
  Solve this by adding a switch that canonicalizes path separators
  (e.g., make them all / or all \)?

* call-process-region: Another tricky situation with binary and text modes.
  An example by dsrosing@reston.ingr.com: use crypt++ to load compressed
  data into a buffer, edit the buffer, save the data back out.  (Also
  need to propagate the "/C" switch change sent the shell in crypt++.el
  back to the author.)

* Dired uses ls-lisp, which reports all files as being owned by the
  current user.  Need to dig through the security descriptor to extract
  the owner of the file (and the group?) using LookupAccountSid.

* Integrate the build for NT into the GNU config process once
  a decent shell becomes freely available

* Integrate networking.

* Fix Win95 subprocesses.
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	2	This is a list of known problems to date with the Windows NT/95 port of
	3	GNU Emacs.
	4
	5	* Handle wildcards in ls-lisp (e.g., C-x d *.c).
	6
	7	* Interactive subprocess output is buffered in jerky
	8
	9	* Presently, C:\foo\bar and C:/foo/bar bring up two buffers on the same file.
	10	Solve this by adding a switch that canonicalizes path separators
	11	(e.g., make them all / or all \)?
	12
	13	* call-process-region: Another tricky situation with binary and text modes.
	14	An example by dsrosing@reston.ingr.com: use crypt++ to load compressed
	15	data into a buffer, edit the buffer, save the data back out. (Also
	16	need to propagate the "/C" switch change sent the shell in crypt++.el
	17	back to the author.)
	18
	19	* Dired uses ls-lisp, which reports all files as being owned by the
	20	current user. Need to dig through the security descriptor to extract
	21	the owner of the file (and the group?) using LookupAccountSid.
	22
	23	* Integrate the build for NT into the GNU config process once
	24	a decent shell becomes freely available
	25
	26	* Integrate networking.
	27
	28	* Fix Win95 subprocesses.