Date:	Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:06:10 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Win 2000 and "forcedos"
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Daniel Taupin wrote:

> Eli Z. told me that there was a bug in Win 2000 which prevents calling
> DJGPP programs from other DJGPP programs (in practive the "system(...)"
> command calling programs rather than basic UNIX functions).
> 
> However, somebody the WinXXX discussion list (in French)  said that
> there was a "forcedos" command in Win2000 which would make everything
> work OK.

Perhaps someone with access to W2K could try this command and see 
whether it solves the problems.  In particular, what does the W2K 
documentation say about this command?  Is it a .exe program? an internal 
shell command? does it have any options?

Thanks in advance for any information.

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