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From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Aspen ksh
Message-ID: <1672@ctisbv.cti-software.nl>
Date: 22 Jan 90 00:05:21 GMT
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bt455s10@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Carl "Art" McIntosh) writes:

>If the solution
>mentioned above doesn't work, you may try putting the following command
>in your .env file: alias -x vi='SHELL=/bin/ksh vi'.  This is a waste of
>resource having to run a sub-shell just to run vi, but that's what it's
>doing anyway by running /bin/sh to run vi ...

This is not running /bin/sh to run vi, this simply is running vi
with a modified environment.
It does not run any sub-shell, but merely tells vi to use /bin/ksh
if it has to spawn a shell.
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