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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 94 01:46:32 EDT
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To: ELE AT CLIENTS DOT SWITCH DOT ch
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Catastrophic problems with v. 1.12
Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu

>    - Calling system("mybat.bat arg1 arg2") hangs.

I can confirm this.  Looking at exphdlr.c, it appears that this system call
will lead to spawnlp being called.  I don't think spawnlp is supposed to
handle a .bat file; it probably loads it as if it were a .com file.  This
looks like a go32 bug.

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