Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell

Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell

[Steven Read]

Corinna,

Thanks very much for nailing this one. I had checked the environment
before posting my original message:

sread@topaz ~
$ set|grep SHELL
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor

sread@topaz ~
$ /bin/bash

sread@topaz ~

What got me was that I had not done an export on any of the environment
variables. Pordon my ignorance but what did I miss here? On the Sun box
I use the environment variables from .profile (which does not exist in
Cygwin) are properly exported. Really I did read the FAQ. By the way
could I persuade you to release the API in PDF format?)

Steven Read - 812/237-3362 - s-read@indstate.edu
Indiana State University

>>> corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com 01/25/2005 4:46 AM >>>
On Jan 24 22:58, Steven Read wrote:
> When I attempt to shell out from Lynx the message "Spawning your
default
> shell.  Use 'exit' to return to Lynx." flashes briefly but nothing
else
> seems to happen. Upon exiting Lynx after browsing the message
"Spawning
> your default shell.  Use 'exit' to return to Lynx." is visible
between
> the lynx command line and the most recent prompt line.
> 
> The uname command returns:
> 
> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 anon 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown
> unknown Cygwin
> 
> The version information for lynx is:
> 
> Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001)
> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7b
> Built on cygwin Aug 11 2003 22:59:49

Works for me.

Could you please check if $SHELL is defined, points to an existing
shell
*and*, that's important, is also in the environment?  Bash for
instance
defines $SHELL, but doesn't export it by default.  Calling `export
SHELL'
should help.


Corinna

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Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell

[Steven Read]

Corinna,

Thanks very much for nailing this one. I had checked the environment
before posting my original message:

sread@topaz ~
$ set|grep SHELL
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor

sread@topaz ~
$ /bin/bash

sread@topaz ~

What got me was that I had not done an export on any of the environment
variables. Pordon my ignorance but what did I miss here? On the Sun box
I use the environment variables from .profile (which does not exist in
Cygwin) are properly exported. Really I did read the FAQ. By the way
could I persuade you to release the API in PDF format?)

Steven Read - 812/237-3362 - s-read@indstate.edu
Indiana State University

>>> corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com 01/25/2005 4:46 AM >>>
On Jan 24 22:58, Steven Read wrote:
> When I attempt to shell out from Lynx the message "Spawning your
default
> shell.  Use 'exit' to return to Lynx." flashes briefly but nothing
else
> seems to happen. Upon exiting Lynx after browsing the message
"Spawning
> your default shell.  Use 'exit' to return to Lynx." is visible
between
> the lynx command line and the most recent prompt line.
> 
> The uname command returns:
> 
> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 anon 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown
> unknown Cygwin
> 
> The version information for lynx is:
> 
> Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001)
> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7b
> Built on cygwin Aug 11 2003 22:59:49

Works for me.

Could you please check if $SHELL is defined, points to an existing
shell
*and*, that's important, is also in the environment?  Bash for
instance
defines $SHELL, but doesn't export it by default.  Calling `export
SHELL'
should help.


Corinna

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Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Steven Read wrote:

> Corinna,
>
> Thanks very much for nailing this one. I had checked the environment
> before posting my original message:
>
> sread@topaz ~
> $ set|grep SHELL
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor
> sread@topaz ~
> $ /bin/bash
>
> sread@topaz ~
>
> What got me was that I had not done an export on any of the environment
> variables. Pordon my ignorance but what did I miss here? On the Sun box

PAGER="less -p allexport" man bash

Don't know if this will work for automatically set stuff, like $SHELL,
though.

> I use the environment variables from .profile (which does not exist in
> Cygwin) are properly exported. Really I did read the FAQ. By the way
> could I persuade you to release the API in PDF format?)

The Cygwin API is in DocBook format.  There seem to be multiple ways of
getting from DocBook to PDF, just Google for "DocBook PDF".

> >>> corinna-cygwin@XXXXXX.XXX 01/25/2005 4:46 AM >>>

Oh, and <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.
HTH,
	Igor
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Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 25 09:08, Steven Read wrote:
> Corinna,
> 
> Thanks very much for nailing this one. I had checked the environment
> before posting my original message:

No, apparently you didn't...

> sread@topaz ~
> $ set|grep SHELL
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor

... because `set' only prints the internal variables of ash/bash, not
the variables exported into the environment.  If you want to print
the environment, call `env'.

> What got me was that I had not done an export on any of the environment
> variables. Pordon my ignorance but what did I miss here?

This has been discussed already two(?) years ago when bash version 2.05
saw the light.  It's mentioned also in /usr/share/doc/bash-2.05b/CHANGES,
line 576:

w.  Bash no longer auto-exports HOME, PATH, SHELL, or TERM, even though it
    gives them default values if they don't appear in the initial environment.

Bash expects SHELL to be set by the invoking login mechanism.  Add
`export SHELL' to your own .profile and you're all set.

>  Really I did read the FAQ. By the way
> could I persuade you to release the API in PDF format?)

HTML is working fine.  I don't see the advantage of PDF over HTML.


Corinna

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Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

> On Jan 25 09:08, Steven Read wrote:
> >  Really I did read the FAQ. By the way
> > could I persuade you to release the API in PDF format?)

You can easily create your own PDF from the DocBook XML files
(available in CVS or the cygwin-doc src package) on linux with a
command like:

xmlto pdf  cygwin-api.sgml

I have not created PDFs since it is not possible to do so on Cygwin right now
(no passivetex package). 

I may merge the API Reference into the User's Guide as an appendix
soon, in which case it would be updated with the User's Guide.

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Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 24 22:58, Steven Read wrote:
> When I attempt to shell out from Lynx the message "Spawning your default
> shell.  Use 'exit' to return to Lynx." flashes briefly but nothing else
> seems to happen. Upon exiting Lynx after browsing the message "Spawning
> your default shell.  Use 'exit' to return to Lynx." is visible between
> the lynx command line and the most recent prompt line.
> 
> The uname command returns:
> 
> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 anon 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown
> unknown Cygwin
> 
> The version information for lynx is:
> 
> Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001)
> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7b
> Built on cygwin Aug 11 2003 22:59:49

Works for me.

Could you please check if $SHELL is defined, points to an existing shell
*and*, that's important, is also in the environment?  Bash for instance
defines $SHELL, but doesn't export it by default.  Calling `export SHELL'
should help.


Corinna

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Lynx - Unable to Shell

[Steven Read]

When I attempt to shell out from Lynx the message "Spawning your default
shell.  Use 'exit' to return to Lynx." flashes briefly but nothing else
seems to happen. Upon exiting Lynx after browsing the message "Spawning
your default shell.  Use 'exit' to return to Lynx." is visible between
the lynx command line and the most recent prompt line.

The uname command returns:

CYGWIN_NT-5.0 anon 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown
unknown Cygwin

The version information for lynx is:

Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7b
Built on cygwin Aug 11 2003 22:59:49

Copyrights held by the University of Kansas, CERN, and other
contributors.
Distributed under the GNU General Public License.
See http://lynx.browser.org/ and the online help for more information.

See http://www.moxienet.com/lynx/ for information about SSL for Lynx.
See http://www.openssl.org/ for information about OpenSSL.

I realize I can open another window but curious why the shell command
is not working.

Steven Read - 812/237-3362 - s-read@indstate.edu
Indiana State University

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