Re: shell command ls -al fails with os error 253

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 14.07.2011 18:38, schrieb AngusC:
> If I use just ls on its own then no error and I see output as expected but
> using ls -al I get ls.exe has stopped working dialog and emacs reports Shell
> command failed with code 253 and no output).
>
> I am running GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) on Windows 7.
>
> Anyone any ideas?
>
> I am quite new to emacs so there may be some tip which would prevent this
> issue?
>
> Angus

Hi,

looks like some windows specific. Are you sure your windows shell 
provides this command?

I'm on GNU Linux, so can't tell more.

Andreas