From:	G DOT DegliEsposti AT ads DOT it
To:	d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk (David Vrabel)
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Message-ID:	<C12565FC.004C7696.00@vega.ads.it>
Date:	Wed, 6 May 1998 16:09:32 +0200
Subject:	Re: Bash as the only shell
Mime-Version:	1.0

>Is it possible to set bash as the only shell instead of command.com?
>If so, how do you do it?
>
>I've tried setting
>   shell=d:\djgpp\bin\bash.exe -login
>in config.sys but it comes up with a error message:
>   : cannot open
>(or something simliar)
>then DOS says
>    Can't load command interpreter...
>
>I am using DR-DOS 7.02.
Some time ago (february or march) there was a message about this
topic. You can look at the mail archives for it.

The author of that message was using MS DOS and not DR DOS but
probably it is not fundamental.

At that time I gave it a try with some degree of succes, but I
gave it up because there were some incompatibilites so I
can't remember very well the process... I try to remember:

The process involves moving as much as possible from autoexec to
config.sys (PATH, and DJGPP setting first of all) and renaming
bash to -bash to circunvent some problems given by SHELL=bash -login

ciao
  Giacomo

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