From owner-ntemacs-users@june Wed Aug 28 16:09:41 1996 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Wed" "28" "August" "1996" "18:23:38" "-0400" "Kenneth L. DeGrant, II" "kdegrant@earthlink.net" nil "18" "Re: 4DOS and shell-mode" "^From:" nil nil "8" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from joker.cs.washington.edu (joker.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.42]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.5/7.2ju) with SMTP id QAA17984 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:09:41 -0700 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by joker.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id QAA42152 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:09:36 -0700 Received: from andorra.it.earthlink.net (andorra-c.it.earthlink.net [204.119.177.97]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.5/7.2ju) with ESMTP id PAA13375 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 15:25:21 -0700 Received: from wilbur (pool040.Max7.Raleigh.NC.DYNIP.ALTER.NET [153.37.21.104]) by andorra.it.earthlink.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA11828; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 15:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3224C6EA.5A11@earthlink.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3221BC34.E80@earthlink.net> <199608261542.LAA09167@volte.i-kinetics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Kenneth L. DeGrant II" To: Ronan Waide CC: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Subject: Re: 4DOS and shell-mode Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:23:38 -0400 Richard Pieri gave the correct answer to using 4DOS in an Emacs 95 shell window. Don't! If you want to do shell mode, you need to: (setenv "SHELL" "C:\\WHEREVER\\COMMAND.COM") or (setenv "SHELL" "C:\\WHEREVER\\4NT.EXE") That's one for the FAQ! Thanks Richard! Ken -- --------------------------------------------- Kenneth L. DeGrant II kdegrant@earthlink.net ---------------------------------------------