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From: johnl@sidd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lesac)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Spawning in Microsoft Windows
Keywords: Spawning Windows
Message-ID: <2509@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 90 00:21:05 GMT
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Reply-To: johnl@sidd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lesac)
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Organization: NCR Corporation, Rancho Bernardo
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I am looking for a way to spawn a non-windows program from within a Windows
program and have the Windows program wait for the spawned program to finish.

So far I have tried win_spawn() and Exec(). Both of these functions allow
the Windows program to continue running in the background. I have even 
tried the spawnl function with the P_WAIT option -- it does not wait.

I would greatly appreciate any help that anyone can give!

John Lesac

NCR Corporation