Shell-out from editor funny

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From: Alan Phillips
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:56

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Found an oddity starting a sub shell from an editor. Here we use MicroEMACS;
under ELM 2.3 I can do a reply, enter uE, start a subshell and get the
default login shell as I expect.

Under 2.4.17, though, this always starts Bourne shell. Is ELM changing
the SHELL variable?

Alan

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From: alan@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Alan Phillips)
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Subject: Shell-out from editor funny
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Date: 11 Jan 93 10:56:34 GMT
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