> Initially SHELL=/bin/bash when using a link in start menu.From initial bash 
> prompt, i start screen, fresh session. There all kinds of bash misbehavior 
> occur, including ~/.bashrc having no effect. Apparent reason for that is that 
> $SHELL becomes /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash within screen.
> A workaround is to start screen asscreen -s /bin/bashor have shell specified 
> in .screenrc. Then bash works as expected. That screen does not respect 
> $SHELL seems to be a bug though.
> Thanks to jturney from #cygwin for helping me pinpoint the problem.
> -anna                                           

Hm... odd.  I'm not able to reproduce this.  I have SHELL=/bin/bash both
inside and outside of screen, and I haven't adjusted it either on the
command line or in .screenrc.  /etc/screenrc doesn't set it either.

Can anyone else verify this?
A.


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