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

[Harald Maier]

"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
>
> I do 'M-x shell' and I get 
> Spawning child process: invalid argument
>
> Does anyone know what might be causing this?
>
> I have removed my _emacs file, and this gives the same behaviour
> i.e. as it is out-of-the-box. Of course this is stopping all other
> shell apps from working (no auctex).

To get the shell under emacs-20.7 to work is a little bit cumbersome.
Why not use emacs-21.3? There all should work fine out-of-the-box.

Harald