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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: make importing SHELL
Message-ID: <8616@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 3 Oct 88 07:52:32 GMT
References: <452@alice.marlow.uucp> <67870@sun.uucp> <67925@sun.uucp> <128@cetia.UUCP> <13753@mimsy.UUCP> <4147@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4147@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>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.

So far as I know, no shell uses the SHELL environment variable
to determine what shell to use when "exec"ing a shell script.

SHELL is used when setting up a new layer or window, etc.