Date:	Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:09:35 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Martin Steuer <martinSteuer AT gmx DOT de>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Dos-Emacs and default shell
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On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Martin Steuer wrote:

> Whenever i try to invoke this function, Emacs tries to run /bin/sh. Is it 
> somehow possible to setup command.com as the default shell?
> I tried 2 things:
> -pointing the environment var SHELL to command.com
> -inserting the line (setq explicit-shell-file-name "c:/windows/command.com")
> 
> But this both doesn't help. Do I need sh?

You don't need sh, but to get what you want you will have to hack 
feedmail.el to replace the explicit "/bin/sh" with shell-file-name and 
"-c" with shell-command-switch.  The fact that feedmail doesn't do that 
itself is a bug.

Don't forget to byte-compile feedmail.el after you change it!

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