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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo Make
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Date: 4 Mar 90 23:51:28 GMT
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benefiel@wyse.wyse.com (Daniel Benefiel xtmp user id dept234) <2624@wyse.wyse.com> :
-I'm getting the error message "Unable to execute command: DEL XPATCH.EXE"
-while running MAKE on the following (partial make file).  I have no

I just tried this on a dummy file:
	DEL XPATCH.EXE			got fatal error

	del XPATCH.EXE			worked fine.

I speculate that commands such as "EXE2BIN ..." succeed because they are
invoking programs that exist in your path.  "del" is a DOS internal
command. Perhaps make tries to handle internal commands specially, but
only recognizes lower case; and it wouldn't find any file named "del.exe"
(or .bat or .com) in your path --- normally such a program could never
be executed because DOS will do its internal command instead.