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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Using files from within a file
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.172911.23853@uwasa.fi>
Date: 28 Mar 91 17:29:11 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.160905.1962@cs.mcgill.ca> <1991Mar27.161456.2175@cs.mcgill.ca>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1991Mar27.161456.2175@cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
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>I would like to make my PASCAL program to use another file that is either
                                                       ^^^^
>in the current directory, or in the path.

Your probably mean another program.

>For example, I might want a program to run McAfee's SCAN on a set of files,
>or I might want to run PKZIP.
>
>Is there a way to do this from within a PASCAL program...?

See your manual for the exec keyword, or /pc/ts/tsfaq17d.arc for the
trick. 

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