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Date: | Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:47:46 GMT |
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David Roon wrote: > I'm trying to write code that will allow me to take an output file from one > program (fileName.inp), and export it into a pre-existing application. > (Running the pre-existing application, and creating an output file). > > The existing program ('CAPTURE') can be run in MS-DOS, using the following > command line; > > capture i=<fileName>.inp o=<fileName>.out > > where <fileName>.inp is the datafile as created by my program > > I'd like to use something similar to the 'WinExec' function available in > Visual Basic. The standard C function is system(). E.g. system("capture i=foo.inp o=foo.out"); This should do what you want, but if not then take a look at the non-standard spawn*() functions (see the DJGPP libc documentation). S.
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