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From: 2113av@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (John Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Child processes in Mess-Dos
Message-ID: <2555@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 90 06:18:20 GMT
References: <619@demott.COM> <15651@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <4469@bwdls58.UUCP> <1990Oct5.170852.29736@sea.com>
Reply-To: 2113av@gmuvax2.UUCP (John Porter)
Organization: George Mason Univ. Fairfax, Va.
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In article <1990Oct5.170852.29736@sea.com> keck@sea.com (John Keck) writes:
>Seems to me I read somewhere the EXE loader is part of COMMAND.COM.  So
>perhaps the distinction is whether the child is COM or EXE file.

I don't see how this could possibly be. Other replacement command interpreters
are sometimes EXE files themselves. E.g. login.exe, of the MKS toolkit.

-- john.port