Use COMSPEC command interpreter to run .bat files.

[davep]

On Wednesday 04 Dec 2002 09:48, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> Here is what I get in wcmd :
> C>dir cygwin.bat
> Volume in drive C is
> Volume Serial Number is 1234-5678
>
> Directory of C:\cygwin\
>
> 01/03/2002  05:05:16            55  cygwin.bat
>        1 file                        55 bytes
>        0 directories      2,218,336,256 bytes free
>
> C>wcmd /c cygwin.bat
> File not found
>
> C>

For that to work wcmd needs to be able to find itself (ie it must be in one 
of the places Win32 searches for executables). wcmd has no special knowledge 
of its own name or how to invoke itself.

However even if wcmd is able to start another version of itself there is 
another problem. wcmd started in this way does not inherit the current 
directory from its parent, so unless you included the full path to 
cygwin.bat the child wcmd would not find it.

Dave
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