Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:52:34 +0200 (IST)
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On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Horst Kraemer wrote:

>    exec(getenv('COMSPEC'), '/c c:\g32\bin\ls.exe -l y > log');

This implicitly assumes that COMSPEC points to COMMAND.COM or its close 
work-alike.  While mostly true, this assumption might be false in some 
rare cases (e.g., there are DJGPP users who put SHELL=-bash.exe in their 
CONFIG.SYS).  If the shell doesn't know about the /c switch, the above 
will fail.