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From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: DOS's Hidden UN*X-like Behavior
Message-ID: <8194@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 25 Dec 89 23:22:06 GMT
References: <1989Dec23.024131.6399@eng.umd.edu> <1762@agora.UUCP>
Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
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In article <1762@agora.UUCP> rickc@.UUCP (Rick Coates) writes:
>               A number of applications simply will not run with the
>switchar set to '-' (Norton utilities and SuperCalc, to name two).  This
>is highly annoying.  Also, if you use 'system()' call in Microsoft C,
>the spawned job dies with an 'Invalid path specification' message.  

I believe that system() in MSC 5.1 works just fine with the switch
character set to '-' (for example), as long as you use the correct
switch character in the '/c' switch, i.e., '-c', or '?c' or '#c"
or whatever the switch character is set to.

Fred