Re: [Bug #3542] DOS 'move' command is not treated as a command at all, when using in rule

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 23:43:22 -0400
> From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
> 
> What's the impact of having extra commands on the list for earlier
> editions of Windows?

For the DJGPP (a.k.a. DOS) port: none.  The DJGPP library's functions
which invoke commands always search for executable programs _before_
they consider internal shell commands.  Thus, the DJGPP port already
looks for move.exe before it invokes the shell's builtin.

For the Windows port: it could fail the rule on Windows 9x.  But the
alternative is to fail on the newer versions of Windows, so I think we
should cater to the newer versions.  We could also code a run-time
check for the Windows version, but I don't know how to do that;
perhaps someone else on this list could suggest the necessary
Windows-specific code.