Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:32:27 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: RHIDE AND EMACS...Which one is better?
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On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH] wrote:

> The only issue I have with Emacs is it's lack of support for running
> external programs.

I don't understand this; invoking programs from Emacs works for ages
with no problems at all.

> I haven't checked with the
> DJGPP version, but I have checked the Win32 (GNU & X) versions.  I can't get
> a command-shell to run or use the function "shell-command-to-string".  Is
> this an issue with the DJGPP version as well?

I just now typed `M-: (shell-command-to-string "ls") RET' in the DJGPP
version, and it returned the list of the files as a string, like I'd
expect.  I don't expect this to be a problem in the other versions of
Emacs, either, unless you have a very old version of Emacs, or maybe
hit a bug that's specific to those Win32 ports.