sh

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Wed Oct 18 13:24:00 GMT 2000


Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> --- Bob McGowan <rmcgowan@veritas.com> wrote:
> > 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.(
> >
> 
> Get the ash source and fix it so that your copy to -sh.exe works.

I don't understand the problem here. ash only checks for the first
character of argv[0] being a '-' character to read the profiles.
I copied sh.exe to -sh.exe as well to run ash as login shell on a
NT 3.51 system on which bash crashed for some reason.

Corinna

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