From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP Library function System(); problem under WIN NT
Date:	13 Jun 2003 16:36:54 GMT
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"Shete, Bahubali     (icd) USX" <bvshete AT moog DOT com> wrote:

> 1. the tmpnam() function with DJGPP returns filenames with '/' as
> separators in the path for the temp. file name. Where as DOS doesn't
> like it.

Wrong.  DOS itself is quite happy with '/' characters to separate
directories inside a file's fullname.  The only parts that really care
are COMMAND.COM and some of the utility programs.

> function call to DOS shell. This works fine under WIN 2000. But fails under
> WIN NT. 

Fails *how*?  Details please.  And/or a minimal program source code
demonstrating the problem.  

Have you checked you're not running into problems due to the lack of
support for long file names on NT, compared to NT5 a.k.a Windows 2000?

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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