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> From: "Rob Uiterlinden" <uiterl AT xspamxnlr DOT nl>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 00:18:18 +0200
> 
> You are right. COMMAND.COM is used. Strange.
> Didn't I read in the documentation that "make" uses COMSPEC to determine
> which shell to invoke?

It does, except that Windows stuffs COMMAND.COM into COMSPEC's value
when it sees a DOS program.  Try printing the value of COMSPEC from a
Makefile, and you will see it.

> > (You should be much better off using cp.exe from GNU Fileutils
> > instead of COPY and othet shell built-ins.)
> 
> OK, how do I emulate "copy /a" using "cp.exe" (truncate on End Of Text)?

Why, do you still have text files that end in a Ctrl-Z character?