Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 13:17:41 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Federico Hernandez-Pueschel cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: djgpp Emacs in Win95 Dos-Box In-Reply-To: <3366932c.8526159@news.th-darmstadt.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Federico Hernandez-Pueschel wrote: > I want to use M-x shell, but I get this error-message: > Multi-processing is not supported for this system > > What do I have to do to so that I can use M-x shell and get rid > of that error message. You can't, sorry. `M-x shell' needs to run the shell as an asynchronous child process of Emacs, and these aren't supported in the DOS version, as you might expect. (Check out the MS-DOS chapter in the Emacs on-line manual, it tells you a bit more about things that work and those which don't.) Work-arounds: 1. Use `C-x C-z' (`suspend-emacs') command. This shells you out to DOS; after you are done, type "exit RET" and you are back inside Emacs. 2. Open another DOS box window and do all your shell operations there. Emacs supports the Windows clipboard (every text you kill, a.k.a. cut, goes into the clipboard automagically, and every yank, a.k.a. paste, checks the clipboard also), so you have some ability to move material between these two windows, if you need. 3. For running non-interactive shell commands (or any other programs, for that matter), use the `M-x compile' command (for running a compiler or Make) or the `shell-command' (`M-!') and `shell-command-on-region' commands (`M-|') commands, for running other non-interactive programs. The latter passes a portion of buffer text to the command you invoke and can optionally replace that portion by the output of the program you invoke. ``Non-interactive'' here means programs that don't need any *input* from you, because any *output* from the program (both stdout and stderr) is caught by Emacs and displayed in a buffer after the program exits.