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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Data Light sh for MS-DOS
Keywords: Bourne shell sh UNIX MS-DOS
Message-ID: <3771@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 90 00:12:50 GMT
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In article <3770@bwdls58.UUCP< mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:
<In article <lee.647721888@chsun1> lee@chsun1.uchicago.edu (dwight lee) writes:
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<>Problem 2: Deciding to try it out anyway, I was unable to get any kind of
<>shell script to run...
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<Try this (worked for me just now):  BEFORE invoking the SH, 
<
<	SET SHELL=./SH
<
<This sets an environment variable to tell SH where to look for a secondary
<copy of itself for running shell scripts with.  The default is c:/bin/sh

I forgot to mention.. be sure to specify the complete path of the shell
script, unless you have set up the PATH variable correctly (possibly BEFORE
entering SH, as with SHELL above).

If the script is in the current directory, then a simple relative path 
should suffice.  I used a script called JUNK as follows:  ./JUNK
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