On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:25:37AM +0900, Michael Bruschkewitz wrote:
> Hello,
> I found this strange behaviour of system(), which is really annoying:
> 
> system ("start dir") fails, unless a file start.cmd (all executable 
> extensions possible?) exists in the current directory (path?).

Or start.exe or start.bat presumably.

I don't understand what you think it should do instead? system("foo") runs
command "foo"