Re: PATH vs. Path ([Fwd: Returned mail: see transcript for details]

[Alessandro Vesely]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:30:01 +0100
> > From: Alessandro Vesely <address@hidden>
> >
> > Currently, in find_and_set_default_shell (main.c) when the SHELL variable
> > or default shell ends with "cmd.exe" or similar variant, it is explicitely
> > accepted. Hence this point should be fixed already.
> 
> Sorry, I'm not following you.  Could you please elaborate: what is the
> problem with accepting cmd.exe?

There is no problem. (Except it is not unixy.) I think thaty code is relatively
new and perhaps the need-to-set-SHELL problem David was complaining abaut has
been fixed by it.
 
> > Because "command.com" is not considered, behaviour is different for win9x.
> 
> Are you saying that command.com should be treated the same as cmd.exe?
> If so, I agree.

Yes, it should. But then also for all known non-unixy shell.