Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 19:23:33 -0500
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id: <199602240023.TAA00864@delorie.com>
To: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <312d2ee0.sandmann@clio.rice.edu> (message from Charles Sandmann on Thu, 22 Feb 1996 21:05:04 CST)
Subject: Re: spawnlp() vs system()


> > 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.

That is the purpose of go32-v2.exe, yes.