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[Earnie Boyd]

--- Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok.  I was basing my opinions on what Bob stated he experienced and previous
versions of other shells that check for sh in argv[0].  Are you saying that
copying sh.exe to -sh.exe and then executing -sh works to trigger login
conditions in ash?

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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