From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eshell problem: Spawning child process: invalid argument? Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 21:12:08 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <4d8d0cea-ce39-4c02-9d25-c441aae8fbaa@t2g2000pbl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337487317 10327 80.91.229.3 (20 May 2012 04:15:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 04:15:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 20 06:15:16 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SVxY1-0003Jk-CA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 06:15:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47654 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SVxY0-0000th-F2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 00:15:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!oo8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1337487128 12323 127.0.0.1 (20 May 2012 04:12:08 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 04:12:08 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: oo8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192493 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84898 Archived-At: On May 19, 1:31=C2=A0am, Michael Albinus wrote: > Xah Lee writes: > > why doesn't this work in eshell? > > > lynx -dump -display_charset=3Dutf-8 -width=3D90http://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) " works for me. It isn't complete, 'though. > > > =C2=A0Xah > > Best regards, Michael. hi Michael, thanks. I've resolved the issue. On Windows, the command needs to be =E3=80=8Clynx.exe=E3=80=8D . Without th= e .exe, eshell gets confused. Xah