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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: EXECUTE in C
Message-ID: <652@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 91 03:35:38 GMT
References: <1991Jan12.062506.19754@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <1991Jan12.062506.19754@marlin.jcu.edu.au> zlnem@marlin.jcu.edu.au (N Milward) writes:
>
>	I'm writing a C program that calls the 2 cli commands copy
>and makedir.  I'm using the call 
>				 status = Execute("copy ...",0,0);
>			and	 status = Execute("makedir ...",0,0);
>
>	I was wondering if there was a way to return errors from the
>copy and makedir command.

Yes.  First, create an argv[] vector for the call, just like the one available
on entry to your program (assuming your running from a shell).

Then, do this:

  if( (Comm_Found = fexecv( argv[0], argv )) == 0 )
    Exit_Value = wait() ;

  fexecv() should be documented in your C manual.  I was unable to find any
documentation on wait(); I figured out how to do this by poking around in the
source to Matt Dillon's shell (thanks, Matt).

>	Any help would be much appreciated.

>Ross Milward 	-   zlnem@marlin.jcu.edu.au

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