Re: M-x shell RET on Windows not working

[coskun]

On Feb 17, 5:50 pm, coskun <coskun.hasan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 16, 11:27 am, coskun <coskun.hasan...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Feb 16, 7:25 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
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> > > > From: coskun <coskun.hasan...@gmail.com>
> > > > Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:08:09 -0800 (PST)
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> > > > On Feb 15, 4:11 pm, Mike Treseler <mike_trese...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > > > > * coskun (2008-02-15) writes:
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> > > > > >> `M-x shell <RET>' does not work. When I try that, a shell buffer is
> > > > > >> created, but I don't get a prompt.
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> > > > > does cmd.exe work at a dos prompt?
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> > > > > check:
> > > > > customize-variable shell-dumb-shell-regexp
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> > > > >          -- Mike Treseler
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> > > > Hi,
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> > > > I am using Vista. I don't know how to start in MS-DOS mode, or even if
> > > > that's possible.
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> > > He didn't say "start in MS-DOS mode", he said "at a dos prompt", which
> > > is an (admittedly misleading) way of asking you to open a "Command
> > > Prompt" window and see if you can get cmd.exe, the Windows shell, to
> > > work there.  "Command Prompt" should be somewhere on your
> > > Start->Programs->Accessories menu.- Hide quoted text -
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> > Sorry. Here is what I see when I open a Command Prompt:
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> > Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
> > Copyright <c> 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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> > C:\Users\Coskun>
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> > When I run cmd.exe at this prompt, I see this:
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> > C:\Users\Coskun>cmd.exe
> > Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
> > Copyright <c> 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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> > C:\Users\Coskun>
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> > It seems that all commands (latex, yap, etc.) I run here work. I type
> > exit twice: once to exit cmd and once again to close the Command
> > Prompt window.
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> > Please let me know if more information would be helpful.
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> > Best,
> > Coskun- Hide quoted text -
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> Hello Ralf, Mike and Eli,
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> I wanted to post an update. As I said earlier, cmd.exe at Command
> Prompt works. But cmdproxy.exe does not work. It turns out that Emacs
> calls cmdproxy.exe when I do 'M-x shell <RET>' not cmd.exe:
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> shell run      *shell* C:/Program Files/Emacs/bin/cmdproxy.exe -i
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> Please let me know if you have any ideas?
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> Best,
> Coskun- Hide quoted text -
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Hello all,

I had precompiled Emacs+AucTeX bundle. I replaced the Emacs\bin
\cmdproxy file with a different version that came with Emacs 22.1, and
it solved the problem.

Best,
Coskun