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From: danking@aludra.usc.edu (Dan King)
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Subject: Executing .BAT files
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Date: 16 Jun 89 19:00:56 GMT
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(forgive me if this has been talked about before, but I can't seem to
solve the problem)

I'm writing a Turbo C program that needs to shell out to DOS in order
to execute another file.  This file will be either .EXE or .BAT, but I
don't have any easy way of telling which (well, I have written a
directory scanning routine that returns it, but that's beside the
point).  Everything works fine if I use .EXE files.

My problem is that I can't seem to be able to use either the EXEC or
SPAWN calls to execute a .BAT file.  A perusal of the TC documentation
reveals that the EXEC and SPAWN calls will automatically search for
.EXE files, but don't seem to be able to deal with .BAT files at all.

Is there any way to accomplish what I'm trying to accomplish?

Thanks for any help,
dank