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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
Subject: Re: Writing a device driver in TP
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Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 05:44:46 GMT

dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes:

(Question as to which chunk of PCDOS handles EXE file conversion)

>As to the exec() question:  the version I heard was that the loader was part
>of the resident part of COMMAND.COM, so it'll handle the EXEC service.
>I'd love to here from someone who uses PC DOS whether this limitation is real
>or just folklore.

Yes.  That would explain it.  But what about people who load an
alternate shell via SHELL= (e.g., MKS Korn shell, 4DOS, etc) ? How do they
run .EXE's under PCDOS?
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