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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: make importing SHELL
Message-ID: <13872@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 88 04:13:47 GMT
References: <452@alice.marlow.uucp> <67870@sun.uucp> <67925@sun.uucp> <7048@ki4pv.uucp>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>In article <4164@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>>But $SHELL seems to be the only automatic mechanism under System V to
>>allow the user to specify which shell should be used to interpret a
>> script.

In article <7048@ki4pv.uucp> tanner@ki4pv.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
>Unfortunately for this argument, $SHELL is not generally used under
>sys5 to decide which shell should be used to interpret a script.

... which is, of course, fortunate for users.  The interpreter needed
to run a script is a property of the script, just as the shell needed
to run makefile commands is a property of the makefile.  The user's
environment has nothing to do with either.
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