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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 19:05:13 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: After you read this PLEASE DONT FLAME ME!
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David M. Cook wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 7 Oct 1998 22:51:56 -0400, Joshua Tacey <josht AT softhouse DOT com> wrote:
> 
> >How do you run a program inside a program?
> 
> If you aren't interested in sending input or getting output use system().
> Otherwise use popen().  Someone suggested one of the exec() calls, but that
> will exit the current program and not come back unless you use fork() to
> create another branch.

Note that in DJGPP you can't use `fork', so use one of the `spawn'
functions instead if you need it to come back.
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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com