Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 19:27:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Shell script execution in spawnXX
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On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > It is currently effectively disabled, but its code is still
> > compiled.
> 
> Why?  That code was designed to handle spawnXX() of programs whose
> first line starts with #! - like perl scripts, awk scripts, etc.

I didn't disable it.  It is disabled (unless I miss something), because 
the interpretes.extension field is 0 for it.  If you invoke it on a shell 
script, what will it do when the script includes shell commands like 
`for', `alias', `set' etc.?