From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: How Do I start another DOS program from DJGPP ? Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <87nb7r$5gb$1 AT nnrp1 DOT deja DOT com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 26 X-Trace: /K+neUKG2Cfhgyfp0HytWlV3s3P6SMjAgnrAZHiol8x5xijl5e30G1BrstgGnwoehvz/rlEKyTRW!1fJyF2ZcBDdADQXunAfdyoVWE5XLqlFOYhQsWsHiowzr2rW9nWtY5nyv1HIWL7u4/22kil/WMA== X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 05:11:42 GMT Distribution: world Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 05:11:42 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com on Mon, 07 Feb 2000 20:51:09 GMT, arcadepreserv AT hotmail DOT com wrote: >I am looking for a dosexex("myprog.exe"); > >type of command, it must be there but what is the syntax and include >needed ? Look up system() and spawn*() in the libc docs. >And then I need the calling program to proceed while the >called program executes, how do I do this ? By not using DOS. DOS can't multitask. >a last question, which is not really essential is how can I read the >output from the called program from the calling program ? By redirecting stdout to a temporary file. foo.exe > filename -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html