Re: [h-e-w] Error when running latex in emacs (spawning child process: invalid argument)

[Chris Lott]

> > I have downloaded and installed Emacs and MikTeX on a Win-NT computer.
> > Emacs with Auc-TeX works, but if I try to compile a tex document (c-c
> > c-c latex), I get an error message:
> >
> >         spawning child process: invalid argument
> >
> > (in Emacs)
>
> You might need cygwin, if the latex command has a hard-coded /bin/sh,
> like many emacs shell commands do.

I don't think this is it-- I use AucTeX without using Cygwin at all... but
make sure that you are using the miktex package that comes with AucTeX?

Also, what versions of Emacs and AucTeX are you running?

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