Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/19/21:23:02
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. :)
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