Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: make importing SHELL
Message-ID: <1988Oct1.235938.12313@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <452@alice.marlow.uucp> <67870@sun.uucp> <67925@sun.uucp> <128@cetia.UUCP> <13753@mimsy.UUCP> <4147@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 88 23:59:38 GMT

In article <4147@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>I think the problem is that $SHELL exists at all.  It's a poor
>substitute for the #! in 4.3BSD.

It's not intended to be a substitute for #!; its purpose is to indicate
which shell should be used when activating an *interactive* shell, e.g.
in a shell escape.
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