From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: executing files
Date:	Thu, 19 Dec 1996 20:17:16 -0800
Organization:	Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> This is incorrect.  `system' only calls COMMAND.COM when its argument
> turns out to be an invocation of a batch file, or of an internal command
> (like `set' or `time').  In all other cases, it does the job by itself,
> eventually calling `spawnve'.  COMMAND.COM is too dumb to let it do this
> job.  For details, see the docs of `system' in the libc reference.

Ah, thank you, Eli!  I had forgotten about this fix in the v2.01 code,
which now lets me invoke 'set' directly in DJVERIFY instead of having to
use 'command /c set'.  I just tested it and it works perfectly.  :)

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