Date:	Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:29:08 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	How to launch shell from `system'?
Message-Id:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.960917142256.2584B-100000@is>
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Testing of the latest version of `system' with Gawk reveals a problem: 
when a command line (meant for ms_sh) includes newlines, it fails, 
because `system' currently passes it via a response file, like this:

		sh -c @response-file

which means the newlines must be backslash-escaped.  However, if I invoke 
the shell instead like this:

		sh -c response-file

it works, because then response-file is treated as a script.

Question:  will I break something if I *always* invoke `sh' like the
latter example (I guess I don't know about Unix shells enough, because
reading their docs I couldn't figure out the difference).  Thanks. 

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