--- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > > --- Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Using a soft link doesn't work from within a shortcut or bat file. So I > need > > > (I think) to make a complete copy of of sh.exe to '-sh', but without the > > > .exe, the Windows > > > environment won't execute it. > > > > > > Any other ideas? I'm fresh out.( > > > > > > > Get the ash source and fix it so that your copy to -sh.exe works. > > I don't understand the problem here. ash only checks for the first > character of argv[0] being a '-' character to read the profiles. > I copied sh.exe to -sh.exe as well to run ash as login shell on a > NT 3.51 system on which bash crashed for some reason. > Ok. I was basing my opinions on what Bob stated he experienced and previous versions of other shells that check for sh in argv[0]. Are you saying that copying sh.exe to -sh.exe and then executing -sh works to trigger login conditions in ash? Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- <http://earniesystems.safeshopper.com> --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows <http://gw32.freeyellow.com/> --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows <http://www.mingw.org/> --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
