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Re: sh
- To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: sh
- From: Bob McGowan <rmcgowan at veritas dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:13:58 -0700
- CC: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Organization: VERITAS Software
- References: <20001018121440.11837.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com>
Using a soft link doesn't work from within a shortcut or bat file. So I need (I think) to make a complete copy of of sh.exe to '-sh', but without the .exe, the Windows
environment won't execute it.
Any other ideas? I'm fresh out.(
Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> --- Bob McGowan <rmcgowan@veritas.com> wrote:
> > I don't believe that sh.exe can be made to work as a login shell. I just
> > tried to copy it to '-sh.exe' on the chance that it might run profiles, but
> > that did not work, for
> > some reason.
> >
>
> Well that reason would be the .exe. How about `ln -s sh.exe \-sh'? I've been
> meaning to look at this but haven't gotten a round tuit.
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Earnie Boyd
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