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RE: Updated: lynx-2.8.4-3
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <garbage_collector at telia dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 13:37:19 +0100
- Subject: RE: Updated: lynx-2.8.4-3
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 4:43 PM
> To: cygann
> Subject: Updated: lynx-2.8.4-3
>
>
> I've updated the version of lynx to 2.8.4-3.
>
> It solves the problem that on the '!' command, the $COMSPEC environment
> variable is evaluated instead of $SHELL. This mess turned out to be a
> Cygwin specific tweak of one of the Lynx developers from back in 1999.
> I just disabled the Cygwin specific behaviour.
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Hi...
Just want to let it be known so that it can be investigated further...
Following description *known* to apply to Windows 98SE.
Others: unknown.
There seems to a analogous problem with "startx" as far as I can
understand: I have
set SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /E:30720
set COMSPEC=C:\COMMAND.COM
in CONFIG.SYS, "SHELL" is copied into the bash environment...
therefore I currently have this two-minute-tweak in ~/.profile
if echo "$SHELL " | grep -i -c command.com >/dev/null
then
export SHELL=
echo "\"command.com\" found in \$SHELL, \$SHELL contents removed."
fi
... As SHELL is empty "startx" works as it should.
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> Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
> Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com
> Red Hat, Inc.
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden
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