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Re: 1.1.8: Mutt can't spawn editor or shell
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:16:54AM -0800, Manoj Plakal wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I recently installed Cygwin 1.1.8 on my Win98 box and
> I've been having problems with Mutt. It runs fine
> mostly
> but it fails to launch an external editor or run
> shell commands (using the `!' key). It doesn't produce
> any error messages, it just seems to skip the edit or
> shell-command step as if it couldn't spawn a process.
No problem here but...
> Found: N:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe
> Found: N:\Cygwin\bin\cat.exe
> Not Found: cpp (good!)
> Found: N:\Cygwin\bin\find.exe
> Found: c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\find.exe
> Warning: N:\Cygwin\bin\find.exe hides
> c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\find.exe
> Not Found: gcc
> Not Found: gdb
> Not Found: ld
> Found: N:\Cygwin\bin\ls.exe
> Not Found: make
> Not Found: sh
^^
that's probably the problem.
Install the `ash' package using `setup' which will install /bin/sh.
It's needed to perform the system(3) call.
Corinna
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