Hi, Ted Menks!
 ES>>> _always_ run at your command "test". Alphabethical order of search in
 ES>>> directory :)
 JB>> no, x.EXE comes "before" x.BTM
 TM> You're right... and x.BTM comes before x.BAT, which would also not 
omply
 TM> to the "alphabetical" rule ;-)
 TM> If Eugene was right, the order of execution would have been: BAT, BTM,
 TM> COM, EXE
 Sorry, but my information 'bout %subj was too old :( It seems it was right
for old versions of DOS (3.+..4.01) Now I got the series of tests :
in my dirctory it were 4 files 1.btm, 1.bat, 1.exe and 1.com. At the DOS
prompt I said "1" and saw the screen answers. Then delete "runned" (am I
right?) file and type "1" again... Tests were made under 4DOS in "pure"
PCDOS 7.0, W95's (OSR2) dos box and OS/2's (WARP 4) dos box. (Now I haven't
older DOS versions %)
        No difference!
 TM> I would like the following order: BTM, BAT, COM, EXE ;-)
        Real order now is COM, EXE, BTM, BAT.
 -=> Eugene S. Elizarov <=-
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