Lawrence Gordon wrote in a message to Michael Quinlan:
 LG> When the EXECUTE statement is called from a compiled PB .EXE,
 LG> COMMAND.COM is not loaded unless you are calling a batch file,
 LG> Michael.  All of the memory required by the calling program is
 LG> deallocated.
Is this with v3.2?  I'm using 3.1 until 3.2 (already ordered) arrives.  What 
I did to determine this is EXECUTE "C:\DOS\MEM.EXE /C /P" and found that TWO 
copies of COMMAND.COM were loaded.  Am I misunderstanding the output?
Michael
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