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> There's no need to do that, the lower 8 bits are correctly
> sign-extended into the return value (which is an int).  See the test
> program I posted for the much simpler way of testing the return value.

 I tried the program in
 Message-ID: <cielml$fln$1 AT nsnmpen3-gest DOT nuria DOT telefonica-data DOT net>
 It works as you explained. For my purpose this is enough.
 Thanks.

 But, is it better to use spawn* when the extension is not known?
 Or when I'm not sure if it is .exe/.com.

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