problem with sub shell on Win2000

[William Main]

Folks-
I am trying to run emacs on my "new" Win2000 laptop. This was running
fine on my old win98 but fails here.

    The problem is when I do an M-x shell command, I get "spawning child
process: invalid argument" in the emacs mini buffer.

    I tryed up grading from v20.3 to v20.7 to no avail.

    I suspect that there has been a change in the cmd world in windows
that is breaking this. In the FAQ there was mention of the virus scan
being an issue and that is a difference between my machines also but I
have to the best of my knowledge turned it off on the new system (for
now).

Can anyone help here?

    Thanks,
    Bill

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