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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Spawning programs, problems and questions
Message-ID: <8810311855.AA05614@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 31 Oct 88 18:55:47 GMT
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:reliable. fexecv is bogus: why go to the trouble of parsing your CLI command
:line into arguments just to have it pack it back into a command line? Why
:didn't they just implement system()?
:
:If anyone can provide an implementation of "system()" that works:
:
:	(1) From the workbench,
:	(2) From the CLI,
:	(3) From detached processes, and
:	(4) From processes with no CLI structure at all

	Doesn't Execute() work (DOS library call).  You might have to
setup pr_CIS and pr_COS before running it, but it ought to work (not at 
home so I can't test this) in all cases.

	The problem with Execute() is that you can't get the exit value
of the program.

				-Matt