On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, John Peters wrote:
Firstly a workaround (fix?): Disable McAfee VirusScan 4.0.2/4.0.4032. If this means it could be described as more an incompatibility than a bug I apologise.
Yes, I would put that down to a system problem. The reason for being picky is that bug reports need to be written up, ... It looks to me as if McAfee has replaced the Windows `search for executables' routine and uses that to go for a virus search. Not much we can do about that.
Try shell():
Both the following cause the same behaviour as with "system()":
shell("dir c:\\tmp\\9907","c:\\windows\\command.com",intern=T)
shell("dir","command.com",intern=T)
It will do as it too has to search for an executable.
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