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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:46:26 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell
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On Jan 24 22:58, Steven Read wrote:
> When I attempt to shell out from Lynx the message "Spawning your default
> shell.  Use 'exit' to return to Lynx." flashes briefly but nothing else
> seems to happen. Upon exiting Lynx after browsing the message "Spawning
> your default shell.  Use 'exit' to return to Lynx." is visible between
> the lynx command line and the most recent prompt line.
> 
> The uname command returns:
> 
> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 anon 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown
> unknown Cygwin
> 
> The version information for lynx is:
> 
> Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001)
> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7b
> Built on cygwin Aug 11 2003 22:59:49

Works for me.

Could you please check if $SHELL is defined, points to an existing shell
*and*, that's important, is also in the environment?  Bash for instance
defines $SHELL, but doesn't export it by default.  Calling `export SHELL'
should help.


Corinna

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