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Re: Patch to allow Cron to use non-POSIX shells like Powershell.exe and CMD.exe




Christopher Faylor wrote:
Mr.  Vixie rightly assumed that cron was running in a UNIX-like
environment where shells take the "-c" option.  Ditto the authors of
"make", "vim", and other packages which use the SHELL environment
variable.

Can we please put this to rest now?
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	Agreement here...
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