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From: wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Execute -- What does it always return -1?
Summary: Improper call to Execute()
Keywords: amigados dos execute
Message-ID: <2493@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 7 Feb 90 15:08:02 GMT
References: <541@qusunb.queensu.CA>
Organization: Dept of Math & Stat, SUNYA, Albany, NY
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In article <541@qusunb.queensu.CA>, cmichael@qucis.queensu.CA (Ian Carmichael) writes:
>  Does Execute always return -1?  In the following code, caller always
>  prints "Success = -1", regardless of the value of N in callee.c, or even
>  caller.c
>  . . .
>       int success;
>       success = Execute ("callee",0,0);
                            ^^^^^^
The first argument to Execute() is the filename of an executable in your
command path.  In this code "callee" is a function name inside the code.
BTW, just for saftety, I would have been happier to see "0L" in the second
and third arguments. (I don't know what your compiling environment is.)
And, just for safety, if my memory is in gear this morning, Execute()
returns "short".
> . . .
>  callee.c
>  #define N 0
>  main()
>  . . .
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