On 24 Jan 2007 03:59:45 -0800, Robert Thorpe <rthorpe@realworldtech.com> wrote:

On Jan 24, 8:20 am, "Graham Smith" <myotis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Eli,
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> I did restart Emacs, indeed I re-booted the PC. I modified the PATH via My
> Computer|advanced|Environmental variable, and I have re-installed Grep.
>
> In the end I gave up and installed Emacsw32, which comes with Grep, and its
> now working.
>
> I would rather have solved the problem but, for now this seems the more
> efficient way of sorting it out.
>
> Should I have added anything in the .emacs file?

No. The message that you saw is a message from Windows that indicates
that the command you have attempted to invoke, grep, can't be found in
the PATH environmental variable. The most likely explanation for the
problem is that the path to grep you entered into the PATH
environmental variable was subtly incorrect.

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