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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:59:35 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> Okay, I found my floppy and played with it a bit.  Error depends on what's
> in the environment, such as the length of the path.  Different versions of
> CWSDPMI behave differently.  Just rearranging the order of the environment
> with exact same environment variable contents causes different failures. 
> An exact copy of the exact same files will fail differently when run from
> the hard drive instead of the floppy.

Yes, that was also my experience when I tried to reproduce the problem
in a cinsistent way.  It is elusive and changes behavior with small
changes in system configuration, including the PATH length.