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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: change the way emacs executes xdvi?
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:35:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <435675D2.3050808@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dj5ido$s1v$1@news.net.uni-c.dk>

Paminu wrote:

>I have installed emacs,xdvi, tex and auctex under cygwin for winXP.
>
>
>I would like to change the way that emacs executes xdvi. Right now it does:
>
>c:\cygwin\home\diku>bash --login -e xdvi c:/cygwin/home/diku/haps.dvi&
>bash --login -e xdvi c:/cygwin/home/diku/haps.dvi&
>xdvi-xaw.bin: Fatal error: Could not open `c:/cygwin/home/diku/haps.dvi': No 
>such file or directory.
>
>
>But if I in run just type:
>bash --login -e xdvi /home/diku/haps.dvi
>
>it work! How do I make emacs "drop" "c:/cygwin"?
>  
>
I have no solution. I just want to say I do not understand how Cygwin 
handles file names. I can for example do

    ls "c:/program files"

in Cygwin bash.  It seems a bit inconsistent if your case does not work.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-19 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-19 13:40 change the way emacs executes xdvi? Paminu
2005-10-19 16:35 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]

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