Apologies Deborah, but it's bank holidays here, and I've just finished
back-to-back trans'lantic trips in the last week (not clear why!).  More on
Tuesday when I recover and think straight again.

The answers are:  "not off the top of my head", "yes", "no", "need to have
sh in the path via mingw or cygwin (this is a guess, not sure about it)".

On 5/26/06, Deborah Donnell <deborah@scharp.org> wrote:
>
> I still don't have a suggested fix for my error. Can you tell me what
> the remote client names for XEmacs is? Would changing to this fix it? Or
> is there something more fundamentally wrong?
>
> Incidentally I have a second, similar, problem, in that when I try to
> invoke the Splus GUI from Xemacs, a get an error that it can't find the
> command "sh".
>
> Thanks for any help, as always,
> Deborah
>
> A.J. Rossini wrote:
>
> > Please keep ess-bugs in the list.
> >
> > Because Emacs has a different remote-client execution name than XEmacs,
> > and gnuclientw is Emacs's, not XEmacs.
> >
> >
> > On 5/22/06, *Deborah Donnell* <deborah@scharp.org
> > <mailto:deborah@scharp.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Yes. How did you guess?
> >     Version 21.4, by the looks of it.
> >     A.J. Rossini wrote:
> >
> >      > Hi Deborah -
> >      >
> >      > The problem is that the pager is specified to be gnuclientw,
> >     which you
> >      > don't have.  You don't mention which Emacs, but are you using
> >     XEmacs?
> >      >
> >      > On 5/22/06, *Deborah Donnell* <deborah@scharp.org
> >     <mailto:deborah@scharp.org>
> >      > <mailto:deborah@scharp.org <mailto:deborah@scharp.org>>> wrote:
> >      >
> >      >     I am generally having a great time using ESS version ( 2.10)
> >     to work with
> >      >     Splus (6.2.1) in Windows. But one thing I have never had much
> >     luck with
> >      >     is getting the help functions to display.
> >      >
> >      >     Is there some obvious reason why this fails to work?
> >      >
> >      >     Below is a tracback of what happens. An HTML window does
> >     appear, but no
> >      >     help text can fund its way to it..
> >      >
> >      >     Thanks!
> >      >
> >      >      > help("rnorm")
> >      >     browsing file pa00B918.txt will be removed at session end
> >      >     Problem in invisible(do.call(ifelse(print, "systemPr..:
> Unable to
> >      >     execute 'gnuclientw.exe', exec.status = 2 (The system cannot
> >     find the
> >      >     file specified.  Full path needed?)
> >      >     Use traceback() to see the call stack
> >      >      > traceback()
> >      >     21: eval(action, sys.parent())
> >      >     20: doErrorAction("Problem in invisible( do.call
> (ifelse(print,
> >      >     \"systemPr..: Unable to execute 'gnuclientw.exe', exec.status
> >     = 2 (The
> >      >     system cannot find the file specified.  Full path needed?)",
> >      >     19: stop("Unable to execute ' gnuclientw.exe', exec.status =
> >     2 (The
> >      >     system cannot find the file specified.  Full path needed?)"
> >      >     18: eval(this.call, local = sys.parent(1.))
> >      >     17: do.call( function.name <http://function.name>
> >     <http://function.name>, function.args)
> >      >     16: eval(expression(do.call(function.name
> >     <http://function.name> < http://function.name>,
> >      >     function.args)), local =
> >      >     parent.frame)
> >      >     15: parent.do.call(on.exec.status, list(on.exec.arg))
> >      >     14: system.results(ret, on.exec.status, on.exit.status ,
> c(with,
> >      >     file), T)
> >      >     13: systemAssoc("open", file = "pa00B918.txt", trans = T,
> >     multi = T,
> >      >     with =
> >      >     12: eval(this.call, local = sys.parent(1.))
> >      >     11: do.call("systemAssoc", system.args)
> >      >     10: systemOpen(file = "pa00B918.txt", trans = T, multi = T,
> >     with =
> >      >     "gnuclientw.exe"
> >      >     9: eval(this.call, local = sys.parent (1.))
> >      >     8: do.call(ifelse(print, "systemPrint", "systemOpen"),
> call.args)
> >      >     7: invisible(do.call(ifelse(print, "systemPrint",
> "systemOpen"),
> >      >     call.args ))
> >      >     6: callBrowse("pa00B918.txt", browser = "gnuclientw.exe")
> >      >     5: eval(this.call, local = sys.parent(1.))
> >      >     4: do.call("callBrowse", c(call.args, browser = browser))
> >      >     3: browse(browser = pager, filename = connection, remove.file
> >     = T,
> >      >     window = window
> >      >     2: help("rnorm")
> >      >     1:
> >      >     Message: Problem in invisible( do.call(ifelse(print,
> >     "systemPr..: Unable
> >      >     to execute 'gnuclientw.exe', exec.status = 2 (The system
> >     cannot find the
> >      >     file specified.  Full path needed?)
> >      >      >
> >      >     --
> >      >     ______________________________________________________
> >      >     Deborah Donnell              Phone        206.667.5661
> >      >     SCHARP HPTN Deputy Director  Fax          206.667.6888
> >      >     SCHARP/FHCRC                 e-mail deborah@scharp.org
> >     <mailto:deborah@scharp.org>
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> >      >
> >      > --
> >      > best,
> >      > -tony
> >      >
> >      > blindglobe@gmail.com <mailto:blindglobe@gmail.com>
> >     <mailto:blindglobe@gmail.com <mailto:blindglobe@gmail.com>>
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> >     SCHARP HPTN Deputy Director  Fax          206.667.6888
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-- 
best,
-tony

blindglobe@gmail.com
Muttenz, Switzerland.
"Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can
easily
roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).

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