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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
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> From: iunknown2k4 AT yahoo DOT co DOT in (anonymous)
> Date: 18 Sep 2004 23:41:10 -0700
> 
>  But, is it better to use spawn* when the extension is not known?
>  Or when I'm not sure if it is .exe/.com.

Not in general, no.  In fact, `system' will call `spawn*' for you if
it can (that is how it avoids going through the shell), so you don't
gain anything.  `spawn*' is more flexible, but you only need that
flexibility in rare cases, at least with DJGPP.