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- From: fish@daacdev1.stx.com
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- Subject: how come : ! out of vi always uses sh instead of $SHELL ???
- Message-ID: <fish.714853851@news2.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 18:30:51 GMT
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- whenever i :! out of vi it uses /bin/sh instead of $SHELL
- so all of my aliases are lost, etc and makes it very limited
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- i'm just beginning to see just how powerful vi really is but
- this one is screwing me up royally
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- thanx,
- fish
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