Suresh Govindachar <sgovindachar <at> yahoo.com> writes: > Juan, > > When you wrote: > > > The string "C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe \e:8192" > > is my COMSPEC variable, ... > > Is the \e (rather than /e) an email typo or real typo?
It's a DOS flag indicator, a forward slash "/". I think that using this notation (instead on the UNIX's "-") is what caused the need for to use the back slash "\" for DOS directories so the back slash was not available for to escape characters, etc. -- Juan
