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Re: 1.5.18: Problem launching URLs from Pine
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: Antony Baxter <antony_baxter at yahoo dot co dot uk>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:06:10 -0600
- Subject: Re: 1.5.18: Problem launching URLs from Pine
- References: <20050831080245.64033.qmail@web86910.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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According to Antony Baxter on 8/31/2005 2:02 AM:
> % echo $SHELL
>
> returns /bin/bash, but stdlib's getenv("SHELL")
> returns null. Pine uses
> getenv("SHELL") to figure out how to execute external
> apps.
>
> Explicitly setting SHELL to /bin/bash allows Pine to
> work.
Sounds like a bug should be reported upstream to Pine to use /bin/sh when
SHELL is undefined!
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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