In article <1990Sep28.234836.17868 at gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> sarathy at gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Rajiv Sarathy) writes: <Others were under the impression that spawn and exec load an additional <copy of COMMAND.COM. I didn't test to see if this is true, but I doubt it. It isn't true. Using system() does, however, load an additional COMMAND.COM.