Date: Mon, 29 Aug 94 14:13:24 EDT
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To: jes AT mbio DOT med DOT upenn DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: djgpp system call
Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu

> Just in case anyone actually sets out to do this: please handle the
> SHELL variable: If SHELL is set, use it instead of COMSPEC and the
> switch should be '-c' instead of '/c'.  This will allow folks to use
> shells other than COMMAND.COM.  Of course if you're exec'ing a '.bat'
> file then you may want to use COMMAND ;-)

But what if you have set SHELL=command.com?  It won't like the -c.  I haven't
looked at the source code for TC 2.0 system(), but in 3.1, it uses COMSPEC
and calls a routine to get the switch character, so you already can use other
shells.  I think that your request would be better met at the application
level than at the extender level.