Hello brusch2,

Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 12:51:10 AM, you wrote:

>> > 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"
>> 
bgn> start is an internal command. 

on win nt/2k/xp. but on the 95 family, you can find start.exe in c:\windows\command directory
and command.com can't execute this command internally

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