From:	Nils Anders Danielsson <nils DOT anders AT swipnet DOT se>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	System crashing - system( "readme.txt" );
Date:	Tue, 03 Feb 1998 18:55:46 +0100
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When I run a program with something like "system( "readme.txt" );" in
the code, the program crashes, both under Windows 95 and DOS 7.

Why?

I'm writing a file manager with a command line function, and it's quite
difficult to check if what's written is "runnable" or not.

TIA

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Nils Anders Danielsson
nils DOT anders AT swipnet DOT se
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