Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!jchapman From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: More on the EXEC function call Message-ID: <1276@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 12:24:22 EST Article-I.D.: watcgl.1276 Posted: Fri Feb 15 12:24:22 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Feb-85 05:49:53 EST References: <243@shell.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 9 a p.s. to my previous followup It sounds like you are expecting msdos to parse the command line which you pass to it - it doesn't, the only use is to put the image of the line where the program being invoked expects to find it (80h in the program segment), that is why you also have to explicitly give the name of the program to be executed as well.