From:	Elliott Oti <e DOT oti AT stud DOT warande DOT ruu DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: System etc.: Follow-up
Date:	Tue, 24 Dec 1996 00:27:55 -0800
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Elliott Oti wrote:
> 
> While using system() to run external programs I noticed that
> trying to run programs using DOS4GW (or any other non-djgpp extender)
> resulted in the computer hanging.
> This also happens the other way round; calling a djgpp program from
> within a Watcom/DOS4GW program results in a crash also.

Following Eli's advice, I merged pmodstub.exe with the executable and 
that works fine: the result can call just about any darn program and
survive ( my program is a DOS shell + editor + modplayer + program launcher
but no, it's not the greatest thing since Win95 :)
The only exceptions I came across were some demos using wierd
homegrown extenders.
Thanks to Eli,John Aldritch & all the others who replied on this.

E.

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