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From:	"Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc:	<djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
References:	<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1020527135048 DOT 9356A-100000 AT is>
Subject:	Re: emacs under w2k
Date:	Mon, 27 May 2002 23:09:57 +1000
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> > > > The testing shows that the command interpreter cmd.exe works fine,
but
> > the
> > > > other command interpreter command.com does not work correctly.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure: all I need is that if the file dj204\djgpp.env exists
that
> > > both cmd.exe and command.com will invoke "@echo here".  Can you
confirm
> > > that this is the case?
> > I tried again and command.com fails even with the quotes so it looks
like
> > cmd.exe (or bash?) should be used.
>
> Sorry, I'm not following: which case of the two I mentioned fails?  And
> how exactly does it fail?

The following two tests fail, they do not echo anything:-
command.com /c if exist \DJ204\djgpp.env @echo here1
command.com /c if exist "\DJ204\djgpp.env" @echo here2

The following two tests pass, they echo here3 and here4. Please note that I
am using cmd.exe as the shell when runnig the tests :-
if exist \dj204\djgpp.env @echo here3
if exist "\dj204\djgpp.env" @echo here4

The output from the batch file is:-
D:\DJ204>command.com /c if exist \DJ204\djgpp.env @echo here1
Bad command or file name

D:\DJ204>command.com /c if exist "\DJ204\djgpp.env" @echo here2

D:\DJ204>if exist \dj204\djgpp.env
here3

D:\DJ204>if exist "\dj204\djgpp.env"
here4
D:\DJ204>

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