Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=3159980 By: keithmarshall
Of course it does. The OP who suggested otherwise is clearly misinformed. With MS-DOS 2.x, there was no easy way to invoke an external command called `date', (short of patching command.com), because you weren't allowed to specify a fully qualified path, and any valid extension, if specified, was always ignored, so even `date.exe' matched the builtin `date'. That got fixed in MS-DOS 3.00, which *did* allow a command to be specified by a fully qualified path, and any command so specified would bypass any attempt to match the builtin names; (however, it still wasn't sufficient to simply add an extension, as the parser removed it *before* looking for a match). MS-Windows cmd.exe syntax is based on the legacy of MS-DOS 6.2, and this convention applies equally in *all* Windows versions today -- any command specified by a fully qualified path *must* invoke an external command, as no builtin can ever match the path name. Regards, Keith. ______________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you elected to monitor this forum. To stop monitoring this forum, login to SourceForge.net and visit: https://sourceforge.net/forum/unmonitor.php?forum_id=74807 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
