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

[Jonathan Epstein]

A good idea, but if you're wedded to 20.7 (as I am), try:

defun set-shell-cmdproxy() (interactive) (setq shell-file-name "cmdproxy") 
(setq explicit-shell-file-name "cmdproxy") (setenv "SHELL" 
explicit-shell-file-name) (setq w32-quote-process-args t) (setq 
shell-command-switch "/c") ) (set-shell-cmdproxy) 

From:
  
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=8gbpqp%24gi9%241%40news.mathworks.com

Jonathan

At 02:49 p.m. 3/9/2004 +0000, Dr Francis J. Wright wrote:
>I recommend you install the current version, 21.3, and try again.  Francis 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: address@hidden
>[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf
>Of Christopher G D Tipper
>Sent: Friday, 5 March 2004 3:02 pm
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: [h-e-w] M-x shell: Spawning child process: invalid argument
>
>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).
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Christopher
>--------------------------------o00o--------------------------------
>  "Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why 
>   some people appear bright until you hear them speak" 
>                                          - Steve Wright