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Re: 1.5.18: Problem launching URLs from Pine


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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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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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