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Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:57:22 +0300
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
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Subject:	Re: system() return value if no program present
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> From: rafael AT gauzon DOT com (rafael garcia)
> Date: 21 Sep 2004 01:19:11 -0700
> 
> > > When executed in my system I find myself in a new shell:
> > > 
> > > Microsoft Windows XP [Versin 5.1.2600]
> > > (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
> > > 
> > > c:c>
> > 
> > Didn't you said some time ago that everything works as expected?  Or
> > was it someone else (am I talking to 2 people)?
> 
> I don't know. This is a drawback of usenet :-)
> Perhaps I refered to another case. 
> This problem appears only when the program I call does not exist.
> 
> > How exactly did you invoke my program? what was the exact command
> > line?
> 
> c:\c>eli

Someone mentioned in this forum just today that he had similar
problems due to insufficient environment size of command.com.  (You
should be able to change that via Properties of the command.com's
box.)  So perhaps if you enlarge the default size of the environment,
your problems will go away.

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