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From: bkbarret@sactoh0.UUCP (Brent K. Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Let's get rid of COMMAND.COM entirely!
Summary: and/or spawn...()
Keywords: command,shell,dos
Message-ID: <643@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 89 12:04:51 GMT
References: <8831@megaron.arizona.edu>
Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
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In article <8831@megaron.arizona.edu>, cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery) writes:
> 
> OK, what's the right way load load and run subprograms from a DOS C program?
> system() loads a copy of COMMAND.COM to do its dirty work, right?
> exec*() functions never return to the caller, right?

 There are also the spawn() functions, which will run 808x programs
without loading COMMAND.COM. Note that no DOS commands will work,
and it will not run batch files.. it expects the file to be 808x
machine code, and it doesn't care what the extension is (if any).

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 "Somebody help me! I'm trapped in this computer!"
  
 Brent Barrett ..pacbell!sactoh0!bkbarret GEMAIL: B.K.BARRETT