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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: make importing SHELL
Summary: Oops
Message-ID: <4180@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 88 14:14:12 GMT
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Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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I said that $SHELL is a poor substitute for the #! in 4.3BSD.

In article <8616@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>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.

This seems to be correct.  I investigated and found no evidence that
SHELL is used to decide which shell should be used to interpret a
script.

It seems that System V has no substitute for the #! in 4.3BSD.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi