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Re: How can I use ansi-term under Windows XP?


From: Water Lin
Subject: Re: How can I use ansi-term under Windows XP?
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:15:25 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (windows-nt)

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> On 2009-08-21 09:35 (+0800), Water Lin wrote:
>
>> I want to use ansi-term under Windows XP. But while I use command M-x
>> ansi-term, Emacs will prompt "Run program:". What should I do to fill
>> this prompt?
>
> First some theory (which you might be already familiar with). Emacs
> ansi-term is a text terminal which means that it's a kind of
> input/output device. Text terminal can run any kind of program so the
> question would be, what program do you want to run in the terminal?
>
> Often the first program to run in a terminal is a some kind of
> command-line interpreter (aka shell) which can then be used to run other
> programs. I don't know much about Windows but is there a separate
> command-line interpreter program in the system? I think you could try
> "cmd.exe". But I'm not sure if Windows programs works in a Unix-like
> terminal.

Ok. I got you now. Thanks, I can try it.

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