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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 00:12:23 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-6.0.46-1
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On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 06:57:19PM -0400, Tyler Close wrote:
> At 11:17 PM 05/11/01 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 05:40:42PM -0400, Tyler Close wrote:
> > > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > >What a funny idea.
> > >
> > > Perhaps, but I am not imagining this behaviour. If you run the Cygwin
> > > /bin/vim.exe from an MS-DOS shell, with no .vimrc file, you will get two
> > > errors of the type:
> > >
> > > Cannot execute shell sh
> >
> >Did you install the ash package?
> 
> Yes. Does this mean that vim is supposed to be starting sub-shells?

Only on ! or :sh commands

> >Sorry but I can't reproduce that.  Neither does the title change nor
> >does it show `sh' or `bash' at all (given I have set CYGWIN=...title...).
> 
> What version of Windows are you using? I am using Windows 98 (not the 

XP Prof.

> second edition). I do not have a CYGWIN environment variable set. Changing 
> the window title must be the default behaviour under Win98. Below is the 

Yes, unfortunately.  Try the same from a rxvt.  However, the behaviour
is that strange, I assume you're suffering from some weird setting on
your box.  Dunno.

> I am installing on a Windows 2000 machine to see if I can reproduce the 
> problem under that OS. Do you have a Windows 98 box?

Only as VM.

Corinna

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