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Re: [h-e-w] M-x shell: Spawning child process: invalid argument


From: Stephen Leake
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] M-x shell: Spawning child process: invalid argument
Date: 09 Mar 2004 12:22:42 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3

"Christopher G D Tipper" <address@hidden> writes:

> I have searched the list and found no answer to this query.
> 
> I have just installed emacs on my Windows partition
> 
> GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-*-windows98.1998)
>  of Tue Jun 13 2000 on buffy

This is an ancient version of Emacs; current is 21.3. Unless you have
a very good reason not to, you should upgrade.

> I do 'M-x shell' and I get Spawning child process: invalid argument

There are many places in Emacs where the shell is assumed to be
/bin/sh. Since Windows doesn't know what that is, you get an error
message like this.

I don't remember if "M-x shell" is one of those places.

The simplest solution is to install Cygwin, which will give you the
bash shell, which works well with Emacs.

But first, upgrade to Emacs 21.3.

-- 
-- Stephe





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