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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> | 1997-05-24 19:50:36 +1200 |
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| committer | Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> | 1997-06-11 12:00:00 +1200 |
| commit | 174c211a66516a872d3a421681076bee9a56fa2b (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae00041697ace94cfab27ea2877a03683b13be8 /pod/perlrun.pod | |
| parent | 490ab354c465618bcdee84ecc1d256c265518f0a (diff) | |
| download | perl-174c211a66516a872d3a421681076bee9a56fa2b.tar.gz | |
win32: user defined shell
This patch replaces the patch in win32.3 in the gnat collection.
The reasons for reworking that patch should be evident from
reading the patch below.
p5p-msgid: 199705291339.JAA21682@aatma.engin.umich.edu
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlrun.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlrun.pod | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod index c4679e1def..de7116d939 100644 --- a/pod/perlrun.pod +++ b/pod/perlrun.pod @@ -567,6 +567,17 @@ The command used to load the debugger code. The default is: BEGIN { require 'perl5db.pl' } +=item PERL5SHELL (specific to WIN32 port) + +May be set to an alternative shell that perl must use internally for +executing "backtick" commands or system(). Perl doesn't use COMSPEC +for this purpose because COMSPEC has a high degree of variability +among users, leading to portability concerns. Besides, perl can use +a shell that may not be fit for interactive use, and setting COMSPEC +to such a shell may interfere with the proper functioning of other +programs (which usually look in COMSPEC to find a shell fit for +interactive use). + =item PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS Relevant only if your perl executable was built with B<-DDEBUGGING_MSTATS>, |