n62@nikhefh.hep.nl (Klamer Schutte) (10/11/88)
In article <7168@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_bjjb@jhunix.UUCP (Jared J Brennan) writes: >Bugs: > > The shell escape function doesn't exactly do a shell escape. You can't > return to the shell you called Moria from. You can, however, call a > paging program, a disk formatter, ANOTHER shell, or whatever. This is not supposed to be a bug on a ST. The only possibility it has is to make a system call which is handled by the shell ( like U*IX system() ) by calling a routine who's pointer is in the system variables ( I don't know which; sorry ) A possibility you do have is when moria does a shell escape ( or some other programs as well ) is to setenv SHELL to the name of the shell; I set it to the name of a small program ( source on request ) which just reads a line and executes it by calling system on this line. -- ________________________________________________________________________________ Klamer Schutte mcvax!nikhefh!n62 n62@nikhefh.hep.nl