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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: system
Message-ID: <7118@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 18 Jan 88 01:14:09 GMT
References: <127@dcrbg1.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 7
Keywords: c program

In article <127@dcrbg1.UUCP> bcf2303@dcrbg1.UUCP (Wing Chow) writes:
>can someone give me an example of how to use 'system' in a c program?

	...
	fflush( stdout );
	if ( system( "date" ) != 0 )	/* print a time stamp on stdout */
		error( "cannot execute \"date\" command" );
	...