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From: kai@kaiki.toppoint.de (Kai Voelcker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: re exec error
Message-ID: <oTke31w164w@kaiki.toppoint.de>
Date: 23 May 91 15:01:47 GMT
Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V. Kiel, W. Germany
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Just an idea: if the program call has no success for a long path then
look at your envirement size. If it is not large enough DOS truncates
the varibles incorrectly and unpredictable results can accour.
note: DR DOS does it correctly and you get error messages instead of a
system crash.
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