Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 11:36:21 +0300
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	Str|mberg on Sun, 15 Apr 2001 09:56:07 +0200 (MEST))
Subject: Re: Stub trying to find COMSPEC=A:\COMMAND.COM\CWSDPMI.EXE!
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> From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 09:56:07 +0200 (MEST)
> 
> set output:
> 
> PATH=c:\fdos\bin;a:\
> COMSPEC=A:\COMMAND.COM
> DJGPP=d:/djgpp/djgpp.env
> 
> Dump of environment block:
> 
> =d 3446:0
> 3446:0000  50 41 54 48 3D 63 3A 5C-66 64 6F 73 5C 62 69 6E   PATH=c:\fdos\bin
> 3446:0010  3B 61 3A 5C 00 43 4F 4D-53 50 45 43 3D 41 3A 5C   ;a:\.COMSPEC=A:\
                         ^^
The stub was supposed to end the scan in load_dpmi when it sees this
null character.

> The sequence of truename calls for CWSDPMI.EXE:
> 
> A:\CWSDPMI.EXE
> c:\fdos\bin\CWSDPMI.EXE
> a:\CWSDPMI.EXE
> COMSPEC=A:\COMMAND.COM\CWSDPMI.EXE
> DJGPP=d:/djgpp/djgpp.env\CWSDPMI.EXE

Obviously, it doesn't.  So there's some bug in load_dpmi wrt the
trailing null character of PATH= setting in the environment.