In article <13753 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: >More generally, the problem is that the environment variable $SHELL has >the meaning `user's preferred shell'... I think the problem is that $SHELL exists at all. It's a poor substitute for the #! in 4.3BSD. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi