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Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:46:26 +0100
- Subject: Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell
- References: <s1f57dbc.053@isugw.indstate.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jan 24 22:58, Steven Read wrote:
> When I attempt to shell out from Lynx the message "Spawning your default
> shell. Use 'exit' to return to Lynx." flashes briefly but nothing else
> seems to happen. Upon exiting Lynx after browsing the message "Spawning
> your default shell. Use 'exit' to return to Lynx." is visible between
> the lynx command line and the most recent prompt line.
>
> The uname command returns:
>
> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 anon 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown
> unknown Cygwin
>
> The version information for lynx is:
>
> Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001)
> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7b
> Built on cygwin Aug 11 2003 22:59:49
Works for me.
Could you please check if $SHELL is defined, points to an existing shell
*and*, that's important, is also in the environment? Bash for instance
defines $SHELL, but doesn't export it by default. Calling `export SHELL'
should help.
Corinna
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