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Subject: Re: why csh?
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>
Date: 24 Oct 1996 17:20:22 -0500
To: Joe Pruett <joey @ q7 . com>
Cc: majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: Joe Pruett's message of Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:33:40 -0700 (PDT)
References: <199610241733.KAA10993@q7.q7.com>

>>>>> "JP" == Joe Pruett <joey@q7.com> writes:

JP> why does the majordomo wrapper specify csh?

Just to have something in the SHELL environment variable.  I don't think
it's actually used anywhere, but we have to put something there because we
don't leak any of the calling environment.  If you prefer to have something
else there, then put it there.

 - J<


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