Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 15:37:12 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Doc for __dosexec_find_on_path()
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> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 11:55:00 +0100
> From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> 
> Please find attached a slight elaboration of Eli's description of
> __dosexec_find_on_path().

Thanks!

> I suggest that this file is called dxfndpth.txh, but the name isn't that
> important. I also suggest that dosexec.txh is renamed to spawn.txh, since
> it describes the spawn*() functions rather than any of the *dosexec*()
> functions.

I'd rather add your contribution to dosexec.txh.  Do you see something
wrong with that?

> While writing this document, I noticed that dosexec.c does not have an
> interpreter for .cmd files. I think these are Windows NT batch files,
> perhaps OS/2. I wonder how easy it would be to add support for these?

What would that support have to be?  If you need cmd.exe to get *.cmd
files supported, what would a program do when cmd.exe isn't available?

> I was also wondering about my dpmi.h patch.

It's on my todo list, don't worry.  I'll get to it, eventually...