Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!hoss.unl.edu!ho From: ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: MS-DOS EXEC Question Message-ID: <1990Sep09.205009.24670@hoss.unl.edu> Date: 9 Sep 90 20:50:09 GMT References: <1990Sep7.144359.25202@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer) Organization: University of Nebraska, Computing Resource Center Lines: 23 In mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: >west@turing.toronto.edu (Tom West) writes: >> Specifically, I have a line that is: >> >> retcode = spawnve(P_WAIT, "C:\COMMAND.COM", path, environ); >[computer locks up when there isn't enough mem to load COMMAND.COM] >This isn't going to help you much, but I've encountered this in >Zenith's MS-DOS v3.21 also. Just so nobody feels alone, it's happened to me, too. I was trying to spawn a program from under a BBS program which had "shelled to DOS." I issued the spawn() call, and instead of locking up or dying, it immediately returned -- with no error code or anything. This is under MS-DOS 3.3, running under a V20 (which may explain why it barrels through rather than locking up... I'm no expert on this low- level stuff, but it seems plausible). -- ... Michael Ho, University of Nebraska Internet: ho@hoss.unl.edu