Re: process* in MSDOS (Win 95) ?

[John Clonts <jclonts@mastnet.net>]

Vardhan Varma wrote:
> 
>        On windows 9x, there are problems with catching outputs of
> process. if A ( scheme ) invokes B (command.com ) which invokes
> C(a.exe), then A can't catch output of C !!
> 
>        This may or may not be related to this problem, depending
>        on if process* uses command.com or not.
> 
> Detail:
>         All this because command.com is a 16 bit application,
>         Soln: avoid command.com somehow,
>         or get a 32 bit command interpreter,  ( zsh, tcsh, 4dos?)
> 
>         This is on basis of what i discovered couple of years back,
>         some or more of this may be wrong.

Hmmm, from the docs I guess that (process* ...) does not use
command.com, which distinguishes it from (process ...) which does.

Maybe someone else can confirm this?

Cheers,
John