From: "Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" <assaph@...>
Date: 2004-03-19T10:27:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Choosing the shell used by %x{ stuff }

>> try %x{ exec zsh -c "stuff" } -- force the interpreter to use.
>> 
>> Ari
>Wouldn't work under windows... portability problem remain then!
>I'm also writting something using %x{stuff} and I'd be curious to know 
>the solution, if it exists.

FWIW, On windows you can change the COMSPEC environment variable.
There's also the 'shell' library in 1.8.1.