GNU bug report logs - #61
offical Emacs 22.1: `term' problem on MS Windows

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Packages: w32, emacs;

Reported by: Peter Tury <tury.peter <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:55:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Peter Tury <tury.peter <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: offical Emacs 22.1: `term' problem on MS Windows
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:49:54 -0700 (PDT)

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gnu.emacs.bug as well.

Hi,

I've just installed official v22.1 from gnu ftp server onto MS Windows
XP. I haven't customized it yet. I tried M-x term and got error:

"Spawning child process: invalid argument"

Then I digged into the code and saw that  term-exec-1 from term.el
uses "/bin/sh" unconditionally. I tried to comment it out, so I got:

"
    (apply 'start-process name buffer
;;	   "/bin/sh" "-c"
;;	   (format "stty -nl echo rows %d columns %d sane 2>/dev/null;\
;;if [ $1 = .. ]; then shift; fi; exec \"$@\""
;;		   term-height term-width)
;;	   ".."
	   command switches)))
"
and, for first sight it seems to work (since `command' has write
value: "C:/Program Files/emacs-22.1/bin/cmdproxy.exe").

Is this a known bug? Or I misused somethnig?

Thanks in advance,
P
Tags added: wontfix Request was from Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> to control <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com. (Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:30:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug reassigned from package `emacs' to `emacs,w32'. Request was from Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org> to control <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com. (Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:55:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug closed, send any further explanations to 61 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and Peter Tury <tury.peter <at> gmail.com> Request was from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:19:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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