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

[Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper]

Sorry for answering my own post, but I thought others might find this fix useful. 

The problem was I had (setq preview-TeX-style-dir ...) in my .emacs file from when I used to use UNIX and apparently on windows this caused the main tex directories not to be read by tex. Consequently, the 
article.cls file was not being loaded and MikTeX was dying with a strange error message.

On 3/23/07, Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper < address@hidden> wrote:

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:

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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

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It seems like auctex is finding MiKTeX properly, but then it complains about an invalid path. Any thoughts?

Thanks,
-Emin