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Re: idl-shell for NT emacs ? [message #6208] Mon, 20 May 1996 00:00
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In article <319FC775.3DB5@itsa.ucsf.edu>,
Karl Young <kyoung@itsa.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> Just curious as to whether anyone knows how, if at all possible,
> to get idl-shell mode running in NT emacs. I stuck the following
> lines in my .emacs file:

I don't know anything about idl-shell, but...

> (defvar idl-shell-explicit-file-name "e:\rsi\idl40\idl32"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(setq idl-shell-explicit-file-name "e:\\rsi\\idl40\\idl32")

should help you further.

> ------------------------------------------------------------ ---
> Loading easymenu...
> Loading easymenu...done
> Loading idl-shell...done
> Spawning child process: invalid argument
> ------------------------------------------------------------ ---

This `invalid argument' comes most probably from the file name, which
is `e:<Carriage Return>siidl40idl32' (which clearly is not the right
path...)

hth,
cu, Steffen
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