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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 15:16:17 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: 'Cannot open'
In-Reply-To: <199609261807.OAA04968@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.960927151500.24686J-100000@ananke.amu.edu.pl>
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On Thu, 26 Sep 1996 fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us wrote:

>Thinking furiously, Mark Habersack wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> When trying to run a DJGPP v2 program from a clean system booted from floppy
>> I have received the following error:
>> 
>> 'SPEC=A:\COMMAND.COM: cannot open'
>> 
>> The part before colon was random. This happened on MS-DOS 6.22, MS-DOS 3.30,
>> IBM PC-DOS 3.31 and WIn95/DOS 7. The floppy contained, in addition to the
>> application, the following files: go32-v2.exe, cwsdpmi.exe (r3). The
>> application was stored both in stubbed and un-stubbed forms. Bot running
>> 'app.exe' alone and 'go32-v2.exe app' resulted in the same behavior.  
>
>But does the floppy contain a COMMAND.COM??
Sure it does! Otherwise I couldn't start the program at all. I've just learnt
that it is a bug in the stub that requires PATH to contain ANYTHING.

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