Re: eshell problem: Spawning child process: invalid argument?

[Xah Lee]

On May 19, 1:31 am, Michael Albinus <michael.albi...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> writes:
> > why doesn't this work in eshell?
>
> > lynx -dump -display_charset=utf-8 -width=90http://example.com>
> > xxxx.html
>
> > i get
> > Spawning child process: invalid argument
>
> This doesn't happen to me. When I call it (with another URL), a buffer
> *lynx* is opened and scrolls through the HTML page. No error is shown.
>
> Which Emacs version do you use? Are you on a local directory in eshell,
> or on a remote one? Running the command on a remote directory returns in
> an error for me as well.
>
> > then eshell doesn't have any doc, so sad.
>
> "C-h i g (eshell) <RET>" works for me. It isn't complete, 'though.
>
> >  Xah
>
> Best regards, Michael.

hi Michael,

thanks. I've resolved the issue.

On Windows, the command needs to be 「lynx.exe」 . Without the .exe,
eshell gets confused.

 Xah