Child processes in MS-DOS

[Walter Bright]

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.