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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: spawnlp() vs system()
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 21:05:04 CST
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> V1's spawn*() tries to run the program directly (to pass the arguments
> correctly), and dies because it doesn't know how.  system() always

Doesn't renaming GO32-V2.EXE to GO32.EXE and putting it in the path before
the V1.x GO32 work around this problem?  (GO32-V2 knows how to run V2
programs, and passes V1 requests to the V1 GO32).  I might be misssing
something.