Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 13:09:35 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: eyal DOT ben-david AT aks DOT com
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: problem: EMACS and RCS
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On Mon, 26 May 1997 eyal DOT ben-david AT aks DOT com wrote:

> runs it by invoking  "/bin/sh"  (hard-coded). I changed the string
> "/bin/sh" to just "sh" , compiled it and copied it to Emacs/lisp 
> directory. Now it works fine since "sh" is found on the PATH.

A better change is to replace "/bin/sh" with this:

	(if (eq system-type 'ms-dos) "sh" "/bin/sh")

That way, it will work on both MS-DOS and Unix.  (Unix needs an explicit
/bin/sh because they want to be sure the default shell is invoked, whereas
on MS-DOS, the probability that you would install and incompatible "sh" 
is very small indeed.)