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From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: command.com versus cmd.exe
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:50:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafsn0fbf50.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uhegv79mk.fsf@raibau.raiffeisen.at

Klaus Berndl <Klaus.Berndl@raibau.raiffeisen.at> writes:

> But it should not matter because i would recommend to check the
> environment-variable COMSPEC (which is set always be every windows system!),
> maybe like follows:

Ah, I didn't know about COMSPEC.  I now use the following code to
initialize the variable:

  (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt))
      (getenv "COMSPEC")
    "/bin/sh")

Are there other values of system-type that I should check for?

kai
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-12 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-12 10:27 command.com versus cmd.exe Kai Großjohann
2002-09-12 11:03 ` Klaus Berndl
2002-09-12 11:50   ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2002-09-12 12:45     ` Klaus Berndl
2002-09-12 17:23       ` Jochen Küpper
2002-09-12 12:59     ` lawrence mitchell
2002-09-12 13:55       ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-12 22:15       ` FRC
2002-09-12 12:50 ` Zhongtao Zhu
     [not found] ` <mailman.1031834951.18415.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-09-12 13:53   ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-13  8:49     ` Klaus Berndl

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