From: "A. Sinan Unur" <sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: System crashing - system( "readme.txt" );
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 20:26:30 -0500
Organization: Cornell University (http://www.cornell.edu/)
Lines: 13
Sender: asu1 AT cornell DOT edu (Verified)
Message-ID: <34D7C3C6.39DD488@cornell.edu>
References: <34D75A22 DOT C52E4737 AT swipnet DOT se>
NNTP-Posting-Host: cu-dialup-0608.cit.cornell.edu
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Precedence: bulk

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