Message-ID: <002f01c2056b$f06cfff0$0102a8c0@acceleron>
From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1020526152724 DOT 29564A-100000 AT is>
Subject: Re: emacs under w2k
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 20:47:15 +1000
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

> > The testing shows that the command interpreter cmd.exe works fine, but
the
> > other command interpreter command.com does not work correctly.
>
> I'm not sure: all I need is that if the file dj204\djgpp.env exists that
> both cmd.exe and command.com will invoke "@echo here".  Can you confirm
> that this is the case?
I tried again and command.com fails even with the quotes so it looks like
cmd.exe (or bash?) should be used.  I have been using cmd.exe all the time,
except when doing some tests.

> (The error message Bad command or file name does not really bother me;
> what's important is that the command conditioned on the "if exist" is run
> when the file exists and is not run when it doesn't.)