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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 10:07:17
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>
Subject: Re: bash as default shell
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 11:53 AM 9/20/98 +0300, you wrote:
>
>On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Zif wrote:
>
>> Could somebody point me to a description of how to set bash as the
>> default dos shell under win95?
>
>The easiest way is to create a shortcut for Bash and make its command 
>line invoke bash.exe.  Then use that shortcut to open all your DOS boxes.

Eli: A technical point. Adding the "shorcut" for Bash would in no way
change the current DOS -- command.com now available? Correct? I want to do
this too, but on a machine I don't own and I don't want to change what is
now working. So this would just be an added command interpreter--right?

Although, in a sense, I'm not sure you completely answered the question
unless your answer is "NO"--I mean we would still be using command.com with
bash imposed on it. But I have tried bash without command.com and while it
works I've never been comfortable with it that way, so I now call up bash
on top of command.com. All works well, but I don't know if this method
answers the gentleman's desire to never see it  again.

Ralph