From: "John M. Aldrich" 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 Lines: 19 Message-ID: <32BA134C.20D@cs.com> References: Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp211.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Eli Zaretskii DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp 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. :) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | fighteer AT cs DOT com | | "Starting flamewars since 1993" | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | | *** NOTICE *** This .signature is generated randomly. | | If you don't like it, sue my computer. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------