running os commands on ms windows

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-windows98.2222)
 of 2002-03-27 on NEVERYON
configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: plk
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-2
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Running DOS commands fails if the shell config.sys variable is not a
plain file name (i.e. if there are the usual parameters like
shell="c:\windows\command.com /p /e:4096").

C.S.


Recent input:

Recent messages:
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shell-command-on-region: Searching for program: no such file or directory, 
"c:\windows\command.com /p /e:4096"