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Article #2118Re: MS-DOS EXEC Question
From: Tiny Bubbles...
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 1990 20:50
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 1990 20:50
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In <eJB8o4w163w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>west@turing.toronto.edu (Tom West) writes:
>> Specifically, I have a line that is:
>>
>> retcode = spawnve(P_WAIT, "C:\COMMAND.COM", path, environ);
>[computer locks up when there isn't enough mem to load COMMAND.COM]
>This isn't going to help you much, but I've encountered this in
>Zenith's MS-DOS v3.21 also.
Just so nobody feels alone, it's happened to me, too. I was trying to
spawn a program from under a BBS program which had "shelled to DOS."
I issued the spawn() call, and instead of locking up or dying, it
immediately returned -- with no error code or anything.
This is under MS-DOS 3.3, running under a V20 (which may explain why it
barrels through rather than locking up... I'm no expert on this low-
level stuff, but it seems plausible).
--
... Michael Ho, University of Nebraska
Internet: ho@hoss.unl.edu
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