Confirm or deny.

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Mon Jan 29 12:57:00 GMT 2001


"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> 
> ...  There is no code in Cygwin which
> checks the type of shell that's running.  ...
> 

Not totally true.  In theory you should notice little difference. 
However, Cygwin does know if it's executing from cmd.exe/command.com and
takes some measure to ensure that the format for spawns are correct for
that shell.  You will also see differences wrt binary mode vs text mode
processing.

Earnie.

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