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From: mlw@pyr.gatech.EDU (Michael Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Chaining TP programs
Summary: use 4.0 and exec
Message-ID: <7003@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 4 Jan 89 19:58:26 GMT
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Reply-To: mlw@pyr.UUCP (Michael Williams)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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   In Turbo Pascal 3.0 it is possible for one TP program to execute another
using the "execute" command.  It worked like this:

   assign(fp, 'myorog.com');  { var fp : file }
   execute(fp);

   However, this only worked for TP .com files.  In TP4.0/5.0, the "exec"
command is much more useful.  You simply do "exec(path, commandline)".
The command line is optional, and non-turbo programs can be called.

Michael Williams