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From: mikemo@microsoft.UUCP (Michael Morearty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Irritating quirks of MS-DOS...
Summary: Gone in OS/2
Message-ID: <7085@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 89 19:07:47 GMT
References: <2090@csuna.csun.edu> <1047@tukki.jyu.fi>
Reply-To: mikemo@microsoft.UUCP (Michael Morearty)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <2090@csuna.csun.edu> abcscnuk@csuna.csun.edu (Naoto Kimura) writes:
>I find a number of irritating quirks of MS-DOS:
>
>*   If I type "A:FOO" to run a program or batch file from the A: drive,
>    and such a file doesn't exist on the A: drive, it will search the
>    path for the file and execute whatever it finds, even if it doesn't
>    exist on the drive I specified on the command line.

This behaves as you would expect in OS/2: if you type "A:FOO", and foo
doesn't exist on A:, you will get an error message.

>*   If I make a batch file, the output of the batch file cannot be
>    redirected.

This also behaves as expected in OS/2: "mybatch >results" redirects
output.

>I'd like to know from those people who have used OS/2 if these same
>quirks occur with the command processor in OS/2.

No, they don't.

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Mike Morearty	(mikemo@microsoft.UUCP, uunet!microsoft!mikemo)