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From: george@hls0.hls.oz (George Turczynski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Calling system processes
Message-ID: <950@hls0.hls.oz>
Date: 28 Oct 90 23:36:14 GMT
References: <15657@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <15657@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, shepherd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Shepherd) writes:
> 
> 	I was wondering if there is a way to call system processes from a 
> C program, and how it would be done (this like 'ls','cd','more')?  I am
> most interest in the ability to change directories though.

Just to quickly answer this last one, though perhaps countless others will also,
use the `chdir()' system call to change directories.

As for the rest, read the manual entries on system(), fork(), execve(), wait()
and so on...


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