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Re: ShellExecute failed
From: |
Jason Rumney |
Subject: |
Re: ShellExecute failed |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:25:33 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) |
Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:
> M-x browse-url RET
> http://clisp.cons.org RET
>
> the browser shows the web page just fine, but Emacs signals an error:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "ShellExecute failed: The system cannot
> find the file specified.
> ")
> w32-shell-execute("open" "http://clisp.cons.org")
This function only reports what the system tells it. Since the OS is
not Free, we can only speculate about what is going wrong, but
w32-shell-execute does seem to be doing everything according to the
documented system interfaces.