Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!16012_3045
From: 16012_3045@uwovax.uwo.ca (Paul Gomme)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re:  ms_sh v1.5, -0 doesn't execute profile.sh
Message-ID: <5717.2624f043@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 13 Apr 90 01:16:51 GMT
References: <692@sixhub.UUCP> <670@syacus.acus.oz> <744@sixhub.UUCP> <5619.261c7a8a@uwovax.uwo.ca> <759@sixhub.UUCP>
Organization: Department of Economics, UWO, London, Ontario, Canada
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In article <759@sixhub.UUCP>, davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
> 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.

When I run sh, I run it under DESQview, and I just checked, and sure enough I
change into the directory I installed sh in.  But, it is still true that the
profile.sh which came with the package doesn't execute (lone CRs or lone LFs; I
can't remember which).

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