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Re: emacs-w3m fails with exit code 128
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
>>>>>> In [emacs-w3m : No.05376]
>>>>>> Gustaf Erikson <gustafe+usenet@openbsd.agero.se> wrote:
>
>> I'm using NtEmacs on WinXP Pro. I've installed Cygwin and compiled
>> w3m. It works fine from the Cygwin terminal. When I try to browse
>> using "M-x w3m" I just get "Reading <site>..." and nothing ever gets
>> displayed. In the *Messages* buffer, I get:
>
>> Reading http://www.google.com...done
>> Cannot retrieve URL: http://www.google.com (exit status: 128)
>> Request sent, waiting for response...done
>
> I don't know unfortunately how emacs-w3m works under NTEmacs, so
> we need a help from those who use NTEmacs. But I found a
> Japanese page written by the emacs-w3m and NTEmacs user. Here's
> a translation:
>
> http://www.fastwave.gr.jp/diarysrv/yukikaze/200305c.html
>
> Emacs doesn't depend on Cygwin. Therefore w3m will call DLL
> of Cygwin when emacs-w3m calls w3m. For that purpose, the
> `Path' environment variable needs to contain the directory
> where DLL has been installed. Otherwise w3m won't work
> correctly.
>
> Could it help you?
Yes! It works!
To clarify: I added the "c:\cygwin\bin" directory to Windows %path%
variable. This, in addition to the above settings, mean that w3m now
works perfectly.
/g.
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