DOS printing from FP menu

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Brian K. White (Thu, 6 Oct 2005 16:28:36 -0400):
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> The problem was the batch file needs to run another batch file, and the
> official way to do that is the "call" comand.
> If you don't use call (or maybe 'start' though that didn't always work)
> then it's like exec on unix or chain in filepro.
> You move into the new script and don't come back from it.

Correct.  That's been the behavior since MS-DOS 1.0 was release.

> Well I found out the hard way that in cmd.exe, %PATH% supercedes shell
> built-ins. I installed perl some time ago, and the installer added .pl
> file type to the registry and added some perl directories to the system
> wide path, and one of those directories had a call.pl, and after that,
> call statements in batch files don't work! Just Amazing.

Well, that's just... wrong.

I can tell you that cmd.exe under XP doesn't act that way.  (At least
not with ".exe" files.  I copied dclerk.exe to call.exe, and "call"
still does the shell built-in.)

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