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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
Subject: Re: K95 shell function
Date: 7 Oct 1999 15:51:15 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <37FCB999.995D1432@tpsdata.com>,
Jim Whitby <jim@tpsdata.com> wrote:
: I have not had to do this yet, but the time is coming. I don't have the
: K95 yet just the unix version.
:
: If I have started k95 from a unix shell ( ksh, bash or ?? ) on a win95
: machine. %COMSPEC still indicates command.com, not the unix shell. When
: I do a shell command , which shell will be used? The parent or %COMSPEC?
:
: Lemme restate that:
:
: From a dos prompt on w95, i'll start a "unix shell" ( bash.exe ), then
: start K95, then need to do a shell command
: from K95 ( E.G. sed < blah blah> ). Which shell will get used? %COMSPEC
: or the parent "unix shell"?
:
: I would suspect its %COMSPEC, but I've been wrong before!
:
: Jim
:
:
K95 will first look for the SHELL environment variable and if that
is not found it will look for the COMSPEC environment variable.
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org