Date:	Mon, 7 Jul 1997 18:57:27 +0200
Message-Id:	<199707071657.SAA15338@tyr.diku.dk>
From:	Morten Welinder <terra AT diku DOT dk>
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.970707185426.11286C-100000@is> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Mon, 7 Jul 1997 18:56:16 +0300 (IDT))
Subject:	Re: bug in system()

   Please explain how did you get into a situation where there's no COMSPEC.  
   AFAIK, it should be always defined on MS-DOS.  If I'm right, comspec is 
   never a NULL pointer.

It's defined when you're in the shell, but you're not obliged to
pass it on to child processes.  a Unixy program might very well
decide to pass on PATH but not COMSPEC.

Morten

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