From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eshell problem: Spawning child process: invalid argument? Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 18:29:20 +0300 Message-ID: <83aa12zx9r.fsf@gnu.org> 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 1337527772 27441 80.91.229.3 (20 May 2012 15:29:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 15:29:32 +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 17:29:30 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 1SW84W-000557-Vk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 17:29:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35348 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SW84W-0007Uz-4g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 11:29:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33608) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SW84Q-0007Uu-Si for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 11:29:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SW84P-0006zx-Bz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 11:29:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:35736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SW84P-0006zt-3o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 11:29:21 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M4B00700UZKBZ00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 18:29:19 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.210.75]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M4B0069KV0QOCB0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 18:29:16 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:84900 Archived-At: > From: Xah Lee > Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 21:12:08 -0700 (PDT) >=20 > On Windows, the command needs to be =E3=80=8Clynx.exe=E3=80=8D . Wi= thout 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 deepe= r and maybe submitting a detailed bug report.