From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Detecting Windows and Windows directory from DOS
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:04:12 +0200
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Outsider wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Outsider wrote:
> > 
> > > If win.com is in the path...
> > 
> > Won't this fail if there are more than a single Windows installation on
> > the machine in question?
> 
> No, it won't fail, it will stop after finding the first one in
> the path. 

That's what I meant by ``fail'': the first file it finds does not 
necessarily live in the directory we are looking for, because it
might belong to the version of Windows other than what we booted.