From:	Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: bash instead of COMMAND.COM: how I did it
Date:	13 Feb 1998 13:27:23 GMT
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Michael Mauch (michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de) wrote:
: Nice - but how did you work around the problem with non-DJGPP programs
: that try to spawn another shell? They usually call "%COMSPEC% /c ...",
: but Bash doesn't like the "/c" (it wants "-c"). Is is possible to make
: Bash accept "/c" as well? Or did you leave COMSPEC=c:\command.com?

Actually I think I added "set COMSPEC=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM", to CONFIG.SYS 
as it wasn't there from the beginning, IIRC.

: P.S.: IMHO there's a little typo in your posting:

: > Assign SHELL "C:\some\path\to\djgpp\executables\-bash.exe", or to quote
: > "SHELL = C:\some\path\to\djgpp\executables\-bash.exe"

: Shouldn't that be "SHELL=C:\some\path\to\djgpp\executables\-bash.exe"?
: (The line is repeated at the end of your article.)

Nope. Not necessary. It works fine here (or rather at home) with the 
spaces...


Ta-dam!

							MartinS

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