From:	"A. Sinan Unur" <sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: System crashing - system( "readme.txt" );
Date:	Tue, 03 Feb 1998 20:26:30 -0500
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Nils Anders Danielsson wrote:
> 
> 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 don't know why.

however, system("start readme.txt"); correctly starts notepad under
windows 95.

  -- Sinan

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