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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: 4DOS problems? (Rather long)
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Date: 9 Feb 90 17:48:52 GMT
References: <7874@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <2942@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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In article <2942@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> fer@phyllis.math.binghamton.edu (fernando guzman) writes:
>I have also had some problems with 4dos.
>When running Kermit under 4dos, the kermit command "dir" is not properly
>received by 4dos as a secondary shell.  [...] I end up in 4dos (as secondary 
>shell) and an error message of the form "-c command not found".  

This is what I believe is happening. You have set your switch character to "-".
Kermit, using the COMSPEC environment variable and the switch character
composes the command (which it execs) "4dos -c dir". But 4dos doesn't
recognize alternate switch characters (after all, it was never part of DOS
officially), so it sees "-c" as the name of a program to run, and gives
the error message. Change your switch character back to "/" and all will be
well.

>This problem does not occur
>when I run kermit under command.com.  

Because command.com (at least some versions) will recognize alternate
switch characters.

>Is this a bug? or am I missing something?

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

Tom Almy
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