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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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