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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Question about Turbo Pascal's Exec
Keywords: Turbo Pascal v4.0 exec
Message-ID: <1389@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 89 07:35:47 GMT
References: <5708@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
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Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <5708@cs.Buffalo.EDU> ugpolvin@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Joseph Polvino) writes:
<I came across the Exec procedure, and it takes the form of:
<   Exec(Path,CmdLine : string);
<The way it looks to me is it will take a path like 'c:\' and a command
<line like 'ted autoexec' and run ted on autoexec.

Check your manual again. What they want is something like this:
	Exec('c:\util\ne.com','autoexec.bat')

In other words, Path is the executable name *and* path. If the program
is on the DOS path, you can use just the name. The Cmdline is the
parameters to be passed.

To run a batch file do it like this:
	Exec('command.com','/c foo.bat')
if the bat file needs extra environment space, this may work (haven't
had a chance to try it yet...)
	Exec('command.com','/e:512 /c foo.bat')
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