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echo: os2prog
to: Jonathan De Boyne Pollard
from: Mike Bilow
date: 1996-02-18 17:07:22
subject: Executing a program?

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 JdBP>   COMSPEC is *officially* supposed to point to "the command
 JdBP> processor". 

Sure, that's useful.  :-)

 JdBP>   Since the environment variables in VDMs and in native OS/2
 JdBP> are distinct,   this gives us a COMSPEC in VDMs that points
 JdBP> to COMMAND, and a COMSPEC in   native OS/2 that points to
 JdBP> CMD.

 JdBP>   And this is, in fact, what we find.

No, it isn't.  Several people have confirmed for me that COMSPEC sometimes
points to COMMAND.COM, even from OS/2 sessions under 2.11.  I don't know if
this was a bug or what, but the behavior was only
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