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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:37:35 +0000
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> Hmm, now that I think about this, maybe calling `system' to run 
> AUTOEXEC.BAT, and then examining the results in the environment *is*
> the way to deal with many of the complexities which were mentioned in
> this thread?  

No, my autoexec.bat files (I have more than 17 managed by a program) normally 
ends calling something like Norton Commander, this will be at least confusing 
for the user. Also: Some autoexec.bat files loads TSRs that won't check if 
they are already loaded. Also: Some autoexec.bat files initializes hardware, 
not a good idea to reset some settings, etc, etc. Running autoexec.bat isn't 
a simple thing.

I think is much more easy to interpret and simulate the autoexec.bat. After 
all the language is very silly. You'll need to find the size of the path and 
environment, but looking at the OS version and the config.sys you can get 
close, also you can do some tests.

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