Question about "find"

[Robert Praetorius]

> Has anyone had success in getting "find" to work with the -exec option
> under the Windows shell (cmd.exe)?  I've tried about every combination
> that I can think of, but I keep getting:

     Yes (on NT, haven't tried Win95) - I just terminate the -exec with 
; or ";" (instead of the traditional \;) and it works fine.  Using \; 
or omitting any kind of terminating semicolon results in

> find: missing argument to '-exec'

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