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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: C-Execute-Command
Summary: exec
Message-ID: <17401@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 4 Dec 89 13:26:45 GMT
References: <2614@servax0.essex.ac.uk>
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX
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In article <2614@servax0.essex.ac.uk>, georg@SunLab13.essex.ac.uk	 (Georgatos G) writes:
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> 
>      Does anybody know how to call an executable file from a C-program ? 
>      I am using the Unix CC compiler.
>  
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>                                                                    Hgg89.

Seems that there is a function in most c compilers called execl or execle
or execlp or execv etc that does this nicely.  Fork seems to it do it also.