Re: Child processes in Mess-Dos

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From: Kevin D. Quitt
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 18:14

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In article <4469@bwdls58.UUCP> mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:
>
>Ok.. I believe the difference here is whether or not the complete path is
>given for the command.  If fully qualified, COMMAND.COM is not needed,
>otherwise it probably is needed to do the PATH search and actual invocation.
>
>Ie.  "C:\BIN\MAPMEM.COM"  -- probably does not need COMMAND.COM
>     "MAPMEM"             -- probably DOES need COMMAND.COM

    Sounds correct - thanks.  This will speed me up a bit where I needed
to be sped up. 

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