make importing SHELL

Rahul Dhesi dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP
Fri Sep 30 13:01:44 AEST 1988


In article <13753 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>More generally, the problem is that the environment variable $SHELL has
>the meaning `user's preferred shell'...

I think the problem is that $SHELL exists at all.  It's a poor
substitute for the #! in 4.3BSD.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi



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