Can't run shell mode or grep

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From: Kam C. Tsang
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 18:44

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   Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 14:35:50 GMT
   Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
   From: jch@mercia.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby)
   Sender: epoch-request@cs.uiuc.edu

   |> >I'm unable to run shell mode or grep.  If I do ESC-x shell-mode,
   |> >emacs gives back "Process shell exited abnormally with code 1".

   I get this if the SHELL environment variable isn't defined.
   I'm sure that shell mode is supposed to try $ESHELL,
   $SHELL and finally /bin/sh, but I haven't really looked into it.

   -- 
   John Haxby, Definitively Wrong.
   Digital				<jch@rdg.dec.com>
   Reading, England		<...!ukc!wessex!jch>

   ----------------------------------------------------------------
   The opinions expressed herein are my own, not my employers.

I have seen this before.  It seems that emacs was depending on the
shell from which it was started to be around by the time you start a
M-x shell or M-x grep.  What I do is to keep that shell around, ie.
start emacs from something like an xterm, and keep that xterm around.

-kam <tsamg@isi.com>

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