[2665] in Athena Bugs
re: mwm's exec
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Fri Jul 28 14:14:00 1989
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 14:13:49 -0400
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [2663]
In the version of the mwm man page I have (dated July 20, 1989), it
says:
"f.exec or !
This function causes command to be executed (using the value
of the $SHELL environment variable if it is set, otherwise /bin/sh).
The ! notation can be used in place of the f.exec function name."
But in the document "Configuring the OSF/Motif Window Manager"
(available from Dave Flanagan), under Table 26 it says:
f.exec (or) ! command: Uses /bin/sh to execute a command
UWM uses /bin/sh always; I assume the ! syntax is there for
compatibility. I consider it a bug that it uses $SHELL.
John
