make importing SHELL

[Nick Crossley]

In article <4147 at bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>I think the problem is that $SHELL exists at all.  It's a poor
>substitute for the #! in 4.3BSD.
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>Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi

It is not only used for scripts, but also for deciding which shell is used
to process ! commands from vi and other such tools.  It is not easy to see
how to extend #! to these facilities.
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