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From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Child processes in MS-DOS
Message-ID: <114@nazgul.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 90 19:14:57 GMT
References: <1990Sep28.234836.17868@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Organization: Zortech, Seattle
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In article <1990Sep28.234836.17868@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> sarathy@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Rajiv Sarathy) writes:
<Others were under the impression that spawn and exec load an additional
<copy of COMMAND.COM.  I didn't test to see if this is true, but I doubt it.

It isn't true. Using system() does, however, load an additional COMMAND.COM.