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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Quirk with command.com shell on XP
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:51:37 +1100
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

By default on my XP comspec is set to use cmd.exe, but if I start a
command.com shell and then use redir.exe it uses comspec and as such runs
the program in a cmd.com shell.

This may seem okay, but when I do this I run out of enviroment space in teh
resulting cmd.com shell.

If I set comspec=.....\command.com then I don't run out of environment
space.

Could other people check this, all you need to do is to try the following:-

1) create a file called makeall.bat with the following lines
    set DJGPP_ROOT=D:\DJ204
    set CONFIRM_COPY=
    set TESTSHELL=%DJGPP_ROOT%\bin\bash.exe
2) Try to execute the makeall.bat using the following command:-
    redir -o mkall_out.txt -eo makeall.bat
3) Open the mkall_out.txt and see if the set environment variables worked or
not


If this occurs on other XP boxes then we need to add the to the FAQ or the
readme.1st file. If it doesn;t happen on other XP boxes then I will be very
pi**ed off.

Regards,
Andrew