From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ShellExecute failed Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:25:33 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095200776 27378 80.91.229.6 (14 Sep 2004 22:26:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:26:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 15 00:26:07 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C7LkU-00009R-00 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:26:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C7Lq4-0004Rn-SF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:31:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C7Lpx-0004RY-IQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:31:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C7Lpv-0004RL-WB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:31:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C7Lpv-0004RI-Su for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:31:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1C7LkA-00025S-2d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:25:46 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8EMPinF021827 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:25:44 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D31DDDD47 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:25:44 +0100 (BST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Sam Steingold's message of "Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:21:51 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27114 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27114 Sam Steingold writes: > M-x browse-url RET > http://clisp.cons.org RET > > the browser shows the web page just fine, but Emacs signals an error: > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "ShellExecute failed: The system cannot find the file specified. > ") > w32-shell-execute("open" "http://clisp.cons.org") This function only reports what the system tells it. Since the OS is not Free, we can only speculate about what is going wrong, but w32-shell-execute does seem to be doing everything according to the documented system interfaces.