--- gforth/configure.in	2004/04/10 10:15:06	1.138
+++ gforth/configure.in	2004/12/31 13:23:56	1.143
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
-#Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 #This file is part of Gforth.
 
@@ -362,6 +362,12 @@ case "$host_os" in
 	*win32|cygwin)
 		DIRSEP="\\\\"
 		PATHSEP=";"
+		#we want the builtins of command.com/cmd.exe and its
+		# handling of .com files.
+		#$COMSPEC contains the name of the Windows shell;
+		# the ./ is there, because the bash does not recognize
+		# absolute DOS filenames
+		DEFAULTSYSTEMPREFIX="./$COMSPEC /c "
 		;;
 	*darwin*)
 		#Darwin uses some funny preprocessor by default; eliminate it:
@@ -369,17 +375,20 @@ case "$host_os" in
 		CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -no-cpp-precomp"
 		DIRSEP="/"
 		PATHSEP=":"
+		DEFAULTSYSTEMPREFIX=""
 		;;
 	*)
 		DIRSEP="/"
 		PATHSEP=":"
+		DEFAULTSYSTEMPREFIX=""
 		;;
 esac
 AC_SUBST(DIRSEP)
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(DIRSEP,'$DIRSEP',[a directory separator character])
 AC_SUBST(PATHSEP)
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PATHSEP,'$PATHSEP',[a path separator character])
-
+AC_SUBST(DEFAULTSYSTEMPREFIX)
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(DEFAULTSYSTEMPREFIX,"$DEFAULTSYSTEMPREFIX",[default for environment variable GFORTHSYSTEMPREFIX])
 
 dnl Now a little support for DOS/DJGCC
 AC_SUBST(GFORTH_EXE)