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From: ho@fergvax.unl.edu (Michael Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Executing .BAT files
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Date: 20 Jun 89 14:41:22 GMT
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From article <584@megatek.UUCP>, by hollen@zeta.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck):
> the /c switch followed by the name of the EXE or BAT file.  Command.com
> will then be able to search for the EXE or BAT and either program
> load or batch process as appropriate.

I think you can also use the system() call to do it -- the system() basically
passes a command line to the shell.  Whether it does it with spawn() or with
the evil undocumented interrupt, I don't know.
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Michael Ho, University of Nebraska		<ho@fergvax.unl.edu>

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