Re: change the way emacs executes xdvi?

[Lennart Borgman]

Paminu wrote:

> I have installed emacs,xdvi, tex and auctex under cygwin for winXP.
>
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> I would like to change the way that emacs executes xdvi. Right now it does:
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> c:\cygwin\home\diku>bash --login -e xdvi c:/cygwin/home/diku/haps.dvi&
> bash --login -e xdvi c:/cygwin/home/diku/haps.dvi&
> xdvi-xaw.bin: Fatal error: Could not open `c:/cygwin/home/diku/haps.dvi': No 
> such file or directory.
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> But if I in run just type:
> bash --login -e xdvi /home/diku/haps.dvi
>
> it work! How do I make emacs "drop" "c:/cygwin"?
>  
I have no solution. I just want to say I do not understand how Cygwin 
handles file names. I can for example do

   ls "c:/program files"

in Cygwin bash.  It seems a bit inconsistent if your case does not work.