Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 13:50:23 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Peter Milliken <pdmillik AT mpx DOT com DOT au>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug in sub-program calls
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On 1 Jul 1996, Peter Milliken wrote:

>   /* 
>   ** This gives "invalid drive specification error
>   */
>   result = spawnlp(P_WAIT, 
>                    "c:\\dos\\xcopy.exe", 
>                    "c:\\dos\\xcopy.exe", 
>                    "c:\\test.c r:\\",
>                    0);

Why do you think this is a problem with `spawnlp'?  ``Invalid drive 
specification'' can easily mean that something's wrong with XCOPY 
accessing your r: drive.  Does this command works from the DOS prompt?  
What happens if you change "r:\\" to some other directory on your c: 
disk--does it work then?