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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: eshell problem: Spawning child process: invalid argument?
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 10:31:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762bstvw6.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d8d0cea-ce39-4c02-9d25-c441aae8fbaa@t2g2000pbl.googlegroups.com> (Xah Lee's message of "Fri, 18 May 2012 17:44:39 -0700 (PDT)")

Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> why doesn't this work in eshell?
>
> lynx -dump -display_charset=utf-8 -width=90 http://example.com >
> xxxx.html
>
> i get
> Spawning child process: invalid argument

This doesn't happen to me. When I call it (with another URL), a buffer
*lynx* is opened and scrolls through the HTML page. No error is shown.

Which Emacs version do you use? Are you on a local directory in eshell,
or on a remote one? Running the command on a remote directory returns in
an error for me as well.

> then eshell doesn't have any doc, so sad.

"C-h i g (eshell) <RET>" works for me. It isn't complete, 'though.

>  Xah

Best regards, Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-19  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-19  0:44 eshell problem: Spawning child process: invalid argument? Xah Lee
2012-05-19  8:31 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.1385.1337416275.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-05-20  4:12   ` Xah Lee
2012-05-20 15:29     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1425.1337527765.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-05-20 20:31       ` Xah Lee

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