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to: Niels Petersen
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1996-10-16 07:30:42
subject: Cheep ewe for you, too

> RM> cd c:\apps\grunge
> RM> grunge.exe %1

> BL> Thanks, Roy. Whatta good idea! My PATH is running into the 256-byte
> BL> limit so it's come just in time.

> BTW, the ".exe" at the end is ignored, as far as I'm aware.
BFN.  Paul.

NP> If you want the batch file to run GRUNGE.EXE then you need to have the EXE 
NP> extension otherwise if a GRUNGE.BAT exists then it will run that instead of 

As far as I'm aware, DOS 3.2 at least would not run GRUNGE.EXE if you put
GRUNGE.EXE, it would have ignored the ".EXE".  Frank has said he
thinks the behaviour changed in DOS.  BFN.  Paul.
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