Ralf, Thanks for the reply. I have installed Grep from the gnuwin32 web site and "now" added it to the PATH environmental variable. Same error. The full error message is *- mode: grep; default-directory: "~/" -*- Grep started at Tue Jan 23 22:19:50 grep -n -e setq ~/.emacs NUL 'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Grep finished with no matches found at Tue Jan 23 22:19:5 On 23/01/07, Ralf Angeli wrote: > > * Graham Smith (2007-01-23) writes: > > > Run grep (like this): grep -n -e setq ~/.emacs > > hit return and get a message that says > > > > 'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > > operable program or batch file. > > > > Can anyone point out what I am doing wrong. > > Did you install grep? Is it in PATH? > > -- > Ralf > _______________________________________________ > help-gnu-emacs mailing list > help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs >