Re: word of the day

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

So in Unix-speak a shell that's being driven by a script that doesn't
prompt for user input is a "non-interactive shell"? I guess that makes
sense since it's referring to an instance of the shell.

In conventional Windows-speak, the default shell for Windows XP is
explorer.exe. There's also the DOS-like command prompt cmd.exe and
there are lots of alternative shells.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
>
>> "Interactive shell"? A shell is by definition interactive, no?
>
> No, shell scripts are not interactive.  Unless they have a menu
> system.  :)
>
> "Interactive shell" is a Unix term, BTW, and refers specifically to an
> actual shell (bash, csh, tcsh, etc).  The only shell in Windows is DOS.
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