From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: default shell for perl(activeware)/emacs 6 Jan 1998 05:11:34 -0800 Message-ID: <19980106125732.7648.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: lizt AT synopsys DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi Liz, The problem is that the version of perl your using only expects to find the dos cmd shell. You either have to find someone elses port to gnu-win32 or you have to get the sources and build it with gnu-win32 yourself. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad) ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services) >Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 13:21:59 -0800 >From: "B. Elizabeth Trojan" >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Subject: default shell for perl(activeware)/emacs > >I've noticed that the default shell for perl and emacs is not >sh/bash. In perl executing a command using the backtick command >results in the command being interpreted by a windows cmd shell. >Likewise if you attempt to start a shell in emacs. How have other >people dealt with this issue? >-- >Liz Trojan >Synopsys (503)531-2297 Office >Beaverton (503)690-6906 FAX >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".