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- From: alan@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Alan Phillips)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Shell-out from editor funny
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.105634.1032@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 10:56:34 GMT
- Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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- Found an oddity starting a sub shell from an editor. Here we use MicroEMACS;
- under ELM 2.3 I can do a reply, enter uE, start a subshell and get the
- default login shell as I expect.
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- Under 2.4.17, though, this always starts Bourne shell. Is ELM changing
- the SHELL variable?
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- Alan
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