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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: make importing SHELL
Message-ID: <4147@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 03:01:44 GMT
References: <452@alice.marlow.uucp> <67870@sun.uucp> <67925@sun.uucp> <128@cetia.UUCP> <13753@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <13753@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>More generally, the problem is that the environment variable $SHELL has
>the meaning `user's preferred shell'...

I think the problem is that $SHELL exists at all.  It's a poor
substitute for the #! in 4.3BSD.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi