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Subject: Re: Problem: duplicate .BAT and .COM in DOS 3.3
Message-ID: <1352@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 00:21:05 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  1 00:21:05 1987
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Keywords: DOS 3.3 BAT batch

In article <302@ashtate.UUCP> cy@ashtate.UUCP (Cy Shuster) writes:
$ In DOS 3.3, if you have FOO.BAT and FOO.COM in the same subdirectory,
$ the COM program is always executed, even if you type "FOO.BAT" at the
$ DOS prompt -- or even "CALL FOO.BAT" (didn't try DETACH :-) ). EXEs
$ also override .BAT. Happens on a PS/2 Mod 30 as well as AT 339. Surely
$ this isn't a feature?
$ 
$ --Cy--           ashtate!cy@seismo.CSS.GOV

Call it a feature or a bug, but it has been that way with all the
versions of DOS that I can remember using.

Tom Reingold
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