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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Execution Order
Keywords: COM EXE BAT
Message-ID: <5794@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 89 18:22:18 GMT
References: <992@expya.cs.exeter.ac.uk> <22@dbase.UUCP> <7237@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
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In article <7237@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> jls@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Jerome
Schneider) writes:
>Steve's observation about the COM EXE BAT search order is correct.  When
>command.com tries to run a program, the extension is stripped off and the
>three extensions are appended, one at a time, while the PATH is searched
>for a matching file.

However, I remember seeing an article here from somebody at Microsoft
(Len Fisher, was it you?) that contained excerpts from an internal
customer support memo.  It explained that the execution search
algorithm was not identical in all MS-DOS versions.  Some versions
strip the extension and some don't.
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