xterm -x 'foo; bar; baz' problem

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Sam Steingold wrote:

> On linux,
> $ xterm -e 'foo; bar; baz'
> starts xterm, then runs shell, executing foo, then bar, then baz.
> on cygwin, I get an error in the xterm
> "No absolute path for shell: foo; bar; baz"

That's a bug in xterm patch #202 which is fixed in patch #203.
The current patch level is #208.

http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_203

amend change to command-line processing in patch #201 to avoid conflict 
with -e option (report by Servatius Brandt).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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