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17 Jul
2010
17 Jul
'10
12:15 p.m.
On 17 July 2010 15:08, Mark Evenson <evenson@panix.com> wrote:
It turns out "ERASE" is a something like a DOS shell primitive, and can't be invoked by RUN-SHELL-COMMAND (who knew DOS could get *more* primitive).
Oh. It must be a command internal to the command interpreter (cmd.exe, or in the days of yore, command.com). We would need to invoke the interpreter specificly and pass erase as the command to run.