Re: more built-in functions, make shell

[Earnie Boyd]

On 3:58:06 pm 2005-07-03 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  Date: Sun,  3 Jul 2005 11:41:08 +0000
> >  From: "Earnie Boyd" <address@hidden>
> >  Cc: <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>
> >
> >  I see the benefits but I don't know if the benefits outway the
> >  headaches it might cause.
>
> What headaches are those?  If the implementation is compatible with
> Bourne shell, it will work as if you had a shell installed.  I don't
> see any headaches here.

I'm thinking of all the code that is specialized to Cygwin and MSYS I
suppose.  Things that handle \r\n when the file is open in binary mode and
this or that.  If it is a configurable option then I have no problem with
it.  Or perhaps filtered to #if _WIN32.

Earnie