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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" -'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: exec.n,v 1.2 1998/09/14 18:39:52 stanton Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: exec.n,v 1.3 1999/04/16 00:46:34 stanton Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH exec n 7.6 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands" @@ -202,10 +202,11 @@ instead of ``applbakery.default''). Two or more forward or backward slashes in a row in a path refer to a network path. For example, a simple concatenation of the root directory \fBc:/\fR with a subdirectory \fB/windows/system\fR will yield -\fBc://windows/system\fR (two slashes together), which refers to the -directory \fB/system\fR on the machine \fBwindows\fR (and the \fBc:/\fR is -ignored), and is not equivalent to \fBc:/windows/system\fR, which describes -a directory on the current computer. +\fBc://windows/system\fR (two slashes together), which refers to the mount +point called \fBsystem\fR on the machine called \fBwindows\fR (and the +\fBc:/\fR is ignored), and is not equivalent to \fBc:/windows/system\fR, +which describes a directory on the current computer. The \fBfile join\fR +command should be used to concatenate path components. .TP \fBWindows NT\fR . @@ -264,7 +265,7 @@ the caller must prepend ``\fBcommand.com /c\0\fR'' to the desired command. Once a 16-bit DOS application has read standard input from a console and then quit, all subsequently run 16-bit DOS applications will see the standard input as already closed. 32-bit applications do not have this -problem and will run correctly even after a 16-bit DOS application thinks +problem and will run correctly, even after a 16-bit DOS application thinks that standard input is closed. There is no known workaround for this bug at this time. .sp @@ -282,8 +283,8 @@ other end of the pipe must be closed before the 16-bit DOS application begins executing. All standard output or error from a 16-bit DOS application to a pipe is collected into temporary files; the application must terminate before the temporary files are redirected to the next stage -of the pipeline. This is due to a workaround for a Windows 95 bug in the -implementation of pipes, and is how the Windows 95 command line interpreter +of the pipeline. This is due to a workaround for a Windows 95 bug in the +implementation of pipes, and is how the standard Windows 95 DOS shell handles pipes itself. .sp Certain applications, such as \fBcommand.com\fR, should not be executed |