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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Child processes in Mess-Dos
Message-ID: <639@demott.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 90 18:14:37 GMT
References: <4469@bwdls58.UUCP>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA
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In article <4469@bwdls58.UUCP> mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:
>
>Ok.. I believe the difference here is whether or not the complete path is
>given for the command.  If fully qualified, COMMAND.COM is not needed,
>otherwise it probably is needed to do the PATH search and actual invocation.
>
>Ie.  "C:\BIN\MAPMEM.COM"  -- probably does not need COMMAND.COM
>     "MAPMEM"             -- probably DOES need COMMAND.COM

    Sounds correct - thanks.  This will speed me up a bit where I needed
to be sped up. 

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