Re: flaky spawning behaviour on 2000, XP

everything *should* work fine under cmd.exe as well.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]>
To: "Edward Peschko" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 2:29 AM
Subject: Re: flaky spawning behaviour on 2000, XP


> >>>>> "Edward" == Edward Peschko <[email protected]> writes:
>
>     Edward> hey, I was using xemacs on NT, and noticed the following
>     Edward> flaky behaviour:
>
>     Edward>     1) I run a shell using 'M-x shell'
>
> Which build environment (native, Mingw, or Cygwin) and which shell?
>
> That's very important.  MS s-hells, maybe cmd.exe sorta works but I
> wouldn't give it any chance to screw up my system.  Among the Cygwin
> shells, the basic shell (ash-based) is not POSIX compliant and of
> course is missing most interesting functionality for command-line use.
> bash seems stablest, and I've had reasonable luck so far, but I don't
> do serious work on Windows.  zsh works but I don't know about extended
> use.  I wouldn't touch a csh, and I've never used a ksh.
>
> I only run Cygwin at the moment.
>
> Note that whether you run native or Cygwin XEmacs doesn't affect your
> choice of shell.  Also, don't forget that MS will slip you a Mickey
> every once in a while: you probably need to be aware of COMSPEC as
> well as SHELL to be sure you're getting your shell of choice.
>
>
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