Hello Paul


 PQ>>> Richard, I have a niggling feeling that MS-DOS 6.2x has a
 PQ>>> 'replace' executable of its own.  Could you check your \DOS [..]
 MK>> On my good old DOS machine i found a tool named treplace.exe. First
 MK>> i was irritated, same date but different size. But it's only packed
 MK>> by PKLITE. After unpacking it has exact the same size of 3543
 MK>> bytes. - I don't remember from where it is, but surely from
 MK>> FidoNet. And i think it was myself who make the rename, cause my
 MK>> DOS (NW,CO,DR) has an executable with the name replace.exe.

 PQ> Someone was keen to keep the (PKLITE-ed) copy under the 2k (disk)
 PQ> cluster size, maybe.
Not get, compressed file is 2875 bytes.
 PQ> If it has the same date then it means you probably got it from the
 PQ> same place (and archive) that I did: here, in this echo. :)
I think so.  ;)   Note: The 'new distribution' is daylighted in time.

 PQ> IIRC, the way DOS looks for executable files is in the order: .Com,
 PQ> .Exe, *.Bat in the current directory.  Then it looks in each
 PQ> directory in the PATH using the same order: .Com, .Exe, *.Bat files.
Exact.
 PQ> So, theoretically, you could have 3 files called "Replace" in any
 PQ> -one- directory but Replace.Com would get executed the first (and
 PQ> only) time.  If wanted one of the others, you need to enter the full
 PQ> name: either Replace.Exe or Replace.Bat, to get them to execute.

Theoretic. But did you write extensions on the command line? Me not.


Micha

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