Running Commands with xterm -e

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Paul Atzberger wrote:

> When using xterm to run a command such as:
>
>   xterm -hold -e "man ls"
>
> cygwin reports the error message:
>
>  no absolute path found for shell : man ls
>
> However, if the command is run with:
>   xterm -hold -e man ls
>
> everything appears to work fine.

That sounds like something I broke in xterm #201, which is fixed in #203.
"xterm -v" would show the patch number.

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