Re: [AUCTeX] auctex/miktex/windows problem: "specified path is invalid"

[Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper]

If I run 

latex "\input" "report.tex"

in a command window
obtained from Start->Run->cmd, everything works fine, but if I
run it in a shell from emacs generated via M-x shell (which prints
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001
Microsoft Corp. on startup), I get the same error as with auctex in
emacs. Do I have to tell auctex/preview-latex/miktex to do something
special with the paths when called from emacs?

Thanks,
-Emin

P.S., both the
successful and unsuccessful invocations of latex claim to "This is
pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (MikTeX 2.5)"

On 3/23/07, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

"Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper" <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear Experts,
>
> I downloaded and installed the version of emacs for windows with auctex
> built-in along with miktex, but I get the following problem when trying to
> compile a file:
>
> -------------------------
> Running `LaTeX' on `report' with ``latex  -interaction=nonstopmode "\input" "
> report.tex"''
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.5)
> entering extended mode
> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8g> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
> rman, ngerman, french, loaded.
> (report.texlatex: Windows API error 161: The specified path is invalid.
>
>
> LaTeX exited abnormally with code 1 at Fri Mar 23 16:28:07
>
> ------------------------
>
> It seems like auctex is finding MiKTeX properly, but then it complains about an
> invalid path. Any thoughts?

What happens if you call

latex "\input" "report.tex"

on the command line?

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