From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <10109201815.AA03307@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: W2K error message documentation
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:14:59 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il ('Eli Zaretskii'),
        wojciech DOT galazka AT polkomtel DOT com DOT pl (Wojciech Galazka)
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I've found different behavior on some commands like md on a couple of Win2K
boxes at different service pack levels.  Some things like "cd" just don't
seem to accept long names at all on any release.  I'll try to test and 
report later.  Ad this point I don't understand exactly what works where
and why.

> > > NTCMDPROMPT

I've thought about that; also it seems window size makes a difference in
the behavior of some commands (i.e. 36 lines isn't a standard DOS size
so it flashes window to different size, runs, restores).  

My main concern here is to find potential gotchas which may break 
makefiles and or configure scripts.  Understand, document, and if needed
fix makefiles, etc.  If the usage is short name clean (such as in make) 
it doesn't matter (except minor error message).