From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lawrence mitchell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: command.com versus cmd.exe Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:59:41 +0100 Organization: funfunfun Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031836566 9835 127.0.0.1 (12 Sep 2002 13:16:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:16:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17pTpD-0002YJ-00 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:16:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17pTpK-0000Cd-00; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:16:10 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!opentransit.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!m76-mp1.cvx1-b.swa.dial.ntli.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: m76-mp1.cvx1-b.swa.dial.ntli.net (213.105.232.76) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1031835769 98035 213.105.232.76 (16 [97657]) X-No-Yes: No Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2.90 (i386-mingw-windows98.2222) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TR76xQW4IN8kQGr1wyH3wruS4y8= Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104822 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1377 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1377 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. > Are there other values of system-type that I should check for? DOS and maybe (probably?) Cygwin I'd guess. What about OS/2?[1] [1] Someone help me! -- lawrence mitchell