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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re:  ms_sh v1.5, -0 doesn't execute profile.sh
Message-ID: <759@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 90 13:36:15 GMT
References: <692@sixhub.UUCP> <670@syacus.acus.oz> <744@sixhub.UUCP> <5619.261c7a8a@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <5619.261c7a8a@uwovax.uwo.ca> 16012_3045@uwovax.uwo.ca (Paul Gomme) writes:
| In article <744@sixhub.UUCP>, davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
| >   I have noted that using the -0 option doesn't cause $HOME/profile.sh
| > to be executed, and have communicated to the author about it, hopefully
| > it will be fixed in the next release.
| 
| I had noticed what had seemed to be the same bug.  I created my own profile.sh
| in $HOME, using a standard text editor, saved the file, and lo-and-behold, the
| -0 option works just fine.  

  Odd. The author mentioned to me that there was a bug, and that ms_sh
looks in the current directory when started, rather than $HOME. Of
course if you start it from $HOME then it appears to work. Supposed to
be fixed in 1.7.
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