Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 13:23:45 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
> Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 23:57:55 -0400
> 
> > What happens with lfnexe.bat.exe or lfnexe.foo.exe?
> 
> gcc -o lfnexe.bat.exe lfnexe2.c
> 
> >lfnexe.bat
> Bad command or file name

Then I think spawn*'s logic is better.  It doesn't make sense, IMHO,
to find a program lfnexe.foo.exe, but fail to find lfnexe.foo.  If I
replace the first dot with something else, as in lfnexe_foo, then both
lfnexe_foo and lfnexe_foo.exe work.  That is, COMMAND.COM (at least on
Windows 98) treats the dot specially here, probably because someone
left the old DOS logic intact.

However, if there are specific problems with what spawn* does, please
tell what they are.