X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/1c91be5784ddebaa6a54f1f2c42a8016f10af6de..9a6d835cfe7761f6a85f84233d9d93722efe6ecc:/sbr/context_read.c

diff --git a/sbr/context_read.c b/sbr/context_read.c
index 8f63fedf..de14b0d5 100644
--- a/sbr/context_read.c
+++ b/sbr/context_read.c
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ context_read (void)
     if ((cp = getenv("MH")) && *cp != '\0') {
 	defpath = path(cp, TFILE);
 
+        /* defpath is an absolute path; make sure that always MH is, too. */
+	setenv("MH", defpath, 1);
 	if (stat(defpath, &st) != -1 && (st.st_mode & S_IFREG) == 0)
 		adios((char *)0, "`%s' specified by your MH environment variable is not a normal file", cp);
 
@@ -105,7 +107,7 @@ context_read (void)
 
 	cp = concat ("Your MH-directory \"", nd, "\" doesn't exist; Create it? ", NULL);
 
-	if (!getanswer(cp))
+	if (!read_yes_or_no_if_tty(cp))
 	    adios (NULL, "unable to access MH-directory \"%s\"", nd);
 
 	free (cp);