From:	"Paulo Santana" <san AT formata DOT com DOT br>
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Subject:	Problems with Clipper RUN command
Date:	Sun, 8 Apr 2001 20:09:48 -0300
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Hi,

A customer says the following Clipper program works perfectly under DR-DOS
7.03, if compiled alone to a single executable. It internally calls
COMMAND.COM to run the COPY command:

   dirmake (AV_DIR)
   RUN COPY *.DBF &AV_DIR > NUL           // Perform the copy
   RUN COPY *.DBT &AV_DIR > NUL           //
   RUN COPY *.NTX &AV_DIR > NUL           //

However, the same code block, inside a larger program, works as expected
under MS-DOS, but NOT under DR-DOS.

First, we thought limited memory available would be the culprit. However,
running some memory checks revealed that DR DOS was freeing even more memory
than MS-DOS, with the same configuration.

We're not experienced Clipper programmers, therefore, we're unable to detect
the real problem for our customer. So, any help would be appreciated.

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