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lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li> writes:

> Kai Grossjohann wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> 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")
>
> How about (or (getenv "COMSPEC") "/bin/sh") ?  Though I suppose
> somebody might have defined an environment variable named COMSPEC
> themselves.

That looks like a good idea.

kai
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