Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:57:47 +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: `system' and unixy shells
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On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, DJ Delorie wrote:

> If you can accurately detect a unixy shell, by all means let it do the
> work.

OK.

Btw, the downside of calling the shell (at least with ms_sh) is that you
lose long command lines, because the format of the ms_sh response file is
incompatible with DJGPP.  Does anybody have a solution for passing long 
command lines to DJGPP programs from ms_sh?