Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 09:42:09 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: How Do I start another DOS program from DJGPP ?
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On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 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 library docs.

> And then I need the calling program to proceed while the called program
> executes, how do I do this ?

On plain DOS, you can't.  On Windows, run the subsidiary program like 
this:

	system("start prog.exe");

> a last question, which is not really essential is how can I read the
> output from the called program from the calling program ?

Use `popen' and `pclose' from the library.  (Note that this won't work 
with the above "start" trick.)