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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: eshell problem: Spawning child process: invalid argument?
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 18:29:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83aa12zx9r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd9d94f5-824e-487f-9b99-4ccc101ecdad@oo8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>

> From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 21:12:08 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> On Windows, the command needs to be 「lynx.exe」 . Without the .exe,
> eshell gets confused.

Probably because you have something else called "lynx.SOMETHING" on
Path that is caught before lynx.exe?  A Unix shell script, perhaps?
If none of these guesses is correct, I'd say it's worth digging deeper
and maybe submitting a detailed bug report.




  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-20 15:29 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
     [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 [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1425.1337527765.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-05-20 20:31       ` Xah Lee

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