Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!silver!templon
From: templon@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Dired on VMS Gnu emacs; repost and request for crosspost
Keywords: GNU, Dired, VMS, subdirectory, lisp
Message-ID: <4096@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 23 May 89 02:25:05 GMT
Reply-To: templon@silver.UUCP (jeffrey templon)
Distribution: comp.emacs comp.os.vms
Organization: Indiana University BACS, Bloomington
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[Note: this is a repost of an article.  I also would appreciate it if some
kind person would post this to the vms emacs newsgroup, as I do not have
access to that group.  -- JAT]

	I am requesting a fix for the VMS version of dired.  The
documentation states

	Type f to Find the current line's file
	  (or Dired it, if it is a directory).

However, on VMS machines when one types f on the line containing a
subdirectory, one receives a Dired listing which contains one line, e.g.

 ETC.DIR   (....)

if ETC.DIR was the one you wanted to look at.  It does NOT give you a
listing of all the files in [.ETC] which is what it would do on a unix
system.

	Can anyone fix this?  I don't know Lisp at all so I am pretty
lost.

					JT