Exactly what text did you add to the PATH variable? It should have been the directory where grep was installed. Matthew Flaschen Graham Smith 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? > > Graham > > > > On 24/01/07, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> >> > Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:27:35 +0000 >> > From: "Graham Smith" >> > >> > I have installed Grep from the gnuwin32 web site and "now" added it to >> the >> > PATH environmental variable. Same error.