Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!LCAMPBELL@dec-marlboro From: LCAMPBELL%dec-marlboro@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: MS-DOS Call 4BH Message-ID: <17599@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 15:21:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17599 Posted: Tue Mar 13 15:21:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 07:44:42 EST Lines: 13 From: Larry CampbellThanks to those of you who responded with suggestions on my problems with DOS call 4B (EXECute a process). For those of you who may have been bitten by this, here's what was doing me in, and the solution: The shell, COMMAND.COM, can be invoked with a switch, /C, followed by a shell command. This causes the shell to execute the single command and return. What is truly bizarre is that the command line must be terminated with a carriage return (D hex), but the count of characters in the command line must NOT include the return!