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- From: damurphy@wc.novell.com (Duane Murphy)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
- Subject: Re: DOSTCL62 and 4DOS problem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.173501.24709@novell.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:35:01 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.030839.5864@cs.ucla.edu>
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- In article George Wu, grw@oahu.cs.ucla.edu writes:
- > The version of 'tcltest' based on dostcl62 running under 4DOS can
- >not 'exec' for some reason. The error message printed out is always
- >"Access error ...". I have traced the problem to a system() call in
- >the dos_exec.c module, it always fails (i.e. returns -1 The same
- >tcltest seems fine running under COMMAND.COM. Does anyone have any
- >idea what's causing the problem under 4DOS ? Any comment is greatly
- >appreciated.
-
- Dollars to donuts says that the exec does the shell wrong. I'll bet exec
- tries to run COMMAND.COM instead of using the COMSPEC environment
- variable. 4DOS warns that some programs shell incorrectly and cause this
- problem. The exec command is probably broken.
-
- Just a thought,
- ...Duane
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