From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:57:47 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87hcwj2ew4.fsf@hans.local.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164765509 22644 80.91.229.2 (29 Nov 2006 01:58:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:58:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 29 02:58:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpEiL-0004B9-HB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:58:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpEiL-0006Iy-77 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:58:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpEi7-0006F8-7Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:58:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpEi5-0006C1-6t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:58:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpEi5-0006Bj-1X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:58:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.188] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GpEi5-0004mJ-1f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:58:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.167.27.150] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwh2-1GpEi22gdc-0001Ch; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:58:02 +0100 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 308A876431; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:57:47 +0100 (CET) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39076 Archived-At: Hi I'd like to be able to open a windows (on XP) compiled help file (.chm). It works well with `shell-process' in just giving the shell the .chm file as argument. But I can't get it to run with start-process. Probably I need to call a viewer for this file. I googled around and found that the internet explorer is supposed to act as "viewer" for these help files. The next hurdle is where to find the executable, I can't find iexplorer.exe or iexplore.exe on my disk. Thanks -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany