make importing SHELL

[Henry Spencer]

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.

It's not intended to be a substitute for #!; its purpose is to indicate
which shell should be used when activating an *interactive* shell, e.g.
in a shell escape.
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