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From: dragheb@isis.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Turbo source for fork()/exec()?
Message-ID: <1648@isis.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Feb-87 10:45:29 EST
Article-I.D.: isis.1648
Posted: Mon Feb 16 10:45:29 1987
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References: <3540009@hpfcph.HP.COM> <540@sdiris1.UUCP>
Reply-To: dragheb@isis.UUCP (Darius "OPRDRT" Ragheb)
Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver
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In article <540@sdiris1.UUCP> jjc@sdiris1.UUCP (Jim Carter) writes:
>In article <3540009@hpfcph.HP.COM>, dalem@hpfcph.HP.COM ( Dale McCluskey) writes:
>> Does anyone have a Turbo Pascal procedure/function that will execute an
>> arbitrary MSDOS command (chkdsk, format, command, or any executable file)?
>> If it's small, perhaps you could post it.  If not, please email me.  Thanks.
>

I know that Blaise Power Tools (a set of C-like tools for Turbo Pascal)
have two types of spawns: one for loading COMMAND.COM with the /C option
and one just to exec another program.  These tools sell for around $95.00
and for the exec include a special assembly file.  The best
way to do this is to write one's own assembly procedure....I am
working on this and am having trouble linking it into
Turbo,....if I get it figured out, I will post it (it almost works
100% of the time on its own, but Turbo is sort of wierd :-)




-- 
Do it in C.  If you can't do it in C, do it in Assembly. 
If you can't  do it in Assembly, it is not worth doing!!

Darius Ragheb    isis!dragheb  |  dragheb@isis.cs.du.edu