Re: [h-e-w] Error when running latex in emacs (spawning child process: invalid argument)

[Stephen Leake]

Sven Enger <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I have downloaded and installed Emacs and MikTeX on a Win-NT computer.
> Emacs with Auc-TeX works, but if I try to compile a tex document (c-c
> c-c latex), I get an error message:
> 
>         spawning child process: invalid argument
> 
> (in Emacs)

You might need cygwin, if the latex command has a hard-coded /bin/sh,
like many emacs shell commands do.

> Earlier, I have installed emacs and miktex on my own computer back
> home (for Win-NT and 2000) without any problems. 

Did these machines have a /bin/sh?

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