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From: pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How to Change directory before running an application ?
Message-ID: <18950026@hpfinote.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 90 21:01:06 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD
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> To do that, i need to do a chdir operation. I've tried chdir from the C library,
> followed by WinExec, but it doesn't work. I've tried prepending the directory
> name to the application name and calling WinExec. That also doesn't work.
> 
What about WinExec (chdir followed by the command) ? Problem is can you
pass two command to one WinExec ??

Sorry, my Windows programming is still in its infancy. Just trying a long
shot here.  :-).


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