Re: [AUCTeX] AucTeX preview error: DviPS sentinel: Spawning child process: invalid argument

[Ralf Angeli]

* mirko vukovic (2007-07-02) writes:

> I am using emacs 22.1 and AucTeX 11.84.  I use the cygwin environment,
> and ghostscript for windows.
[...]
> Running `Preview-DviPS' with ``dvips -Pwww "_region_.dvi" -o 
> "_region_.prv/tmp43288un"/preview.ps''
> This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software 
> (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2007.07.02:1432' -> _region_.prv/tmp43288un/preview.ps
> <tex.pro><texps.pro><special.pro>. <cmr10.pfb><cmmi10.pfb>[1] 
>
> Preview-DviPS finished at Mon Jul 02 14:32:18
> DviPS sentinel: Spawning child process: invalid argument

What happens if you call dvips with the command above from a terminal?

Do you get the same error with an Emacs compiled for Cygwin?

-- 
Ralf