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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: execl()'ing batch files in DOS
Keywords: batch, execl, dos
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Date: 17 May 89 20:51:45 GMT
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Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
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Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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>>	execl("\command.com", "tryit.bat", NULL);
>>
>>and perror() tells me "No such file or directory."

     char option[] = "/c";
     char *comspec;

     if (msdos_version <= 3)
        option[0] = getswitchar();       /* Turbo C 2.0 */
     else 
        printf ("Please upgrade to UNIX\n");
        
     if ((comspec = getenv("COMSPEC")) == NULL)
        comspec = "/command.com";
     execl (comspec, comspec, option, "tryit.bat", (char *) NULL);
     perror ("execl");

I have not tested this.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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