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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:54:01 -0800
From: "Edward F. Sowell" <sowelled AT home DOT com>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Weird behavior with spawnl()
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> This is too complicated, since it involves argv[1] passed from
> somewhere else.  I suggest to throw together a simple test program
> that calls spawnl with a known constant string, then post the results.
> 

Thanks, Eli. As usual, your suggestions point me in the rigth direction.
It worked with simple strings. That led me to discover other wonders
in the world of special character quoting and escaping. I had
been setting the command line for my test program in the provided
field in the MS Developer studio WITH the \\ instead of \ because
a portion of it was quoted. Well, the doubles are NOT needed there.

The problem with the real program turned out to be another
aspect of the / vs the \, mixed in with the MV CreateProcess()
being absolutely unaware of Win 95 path... had to
convert to short path.

Thanks again.

Ed