From: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: spawn !?
Date: 29 May 1999 23:38:52 GMT
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^Hawk^ (Hawk AT DarkSoft DOT Net) wrote:
: I want to execute a simple command line like "d:\temp\temp.exe
: command1 command2 ..." or "temp.exe" or "temp.exe command1". The path
: / the program and the commands (if given) are all in the same string.
: 
: How can I execute those single strings via spawn or exec ? It looks
: (in the docs) that spawn/exec need much more params as I have.

Examine libc's system().

: Ohh ... the program which I want to execute out of my program is a dos
: real mode program and it should not executed within the 640KB because
: there is not enough free if my own program runs.

Real mode and not "within the 640KB" don't compute (in x86).

Does your program really use all DOZE memory (through
__dpmi_allocate_dos_memory() and similar calls)? If not, how did you
reach this conclusion? If it do, I don't see any obvious solution.


Alanis Morissette, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie,

							MartinS