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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Re: Executing .BAT files
Message-ID: <1989Jun20.004016.5887@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <4112@merlin.usc.edu> <584@megatek.UUCP>
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In article <584@megatek.UUCP> hollen@zeta.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck) writes:
>From article <4112@merlin.usc.edu>, by danking@aludra.usc.edu (Dan King):
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>This information is not necessarily accurate but should point you 
>in the right direction to get the correct information. 
>
>What you should do is to EXEC or SPAWN command.com with, I believe,

There's an even easier, and I think more memory efficient method. Write
a function that converts a char *arg[] array to single string
(via strcat(line, argv[i]), strcat(line, " ")), and then invoke
the "system()" function. I believe the system() call uses the already-
resident command.com.
	As an added bonus, this is much more portable, however useless
if your .exe file uses a main(argc, argv, envp), 'cuz envp can't be
passed to the system call.

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