Hi Keith,

Did you resolve your problem with WinExec and Windows-95 ?

I had to write a little 16-bit Win-95 program tonight which would
change the system date, execute a program and then restore the date
when the Exec'd program had terminated.

I was able to use WinExec without any problem.

FWIW, I had a quick look at the Win-32 reference for CreateProcess
and if you want your program to wait until the called program has
started you'd have to be a real masochist to use it. There was no
reference to WinExec failing, in fact it stated that WinExec made
all the right calls to CreateProcess. Personally, I'd only use
CreateProcess if you want to get control back before the Exec'd
program had hooked into the message queue, opened a window or
something similar like needing to control the new process with some
sort of synchronisation. For a simple Start/Wait/Continue scenario,
WinExec is a lot less work. Especially if you want to send some fake
keystoke stuff to the new process.

Regards, Brenton
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