Lawrence Lucier wrote in a message to All:

 LL>     Newbie to C programming here.  Am using emx09b and
 LL> project manager to learn with.  I would like to play around
 LL> with writing an interface that would call (amongst others)
 LL> such programs as PKZIP, zip, pak, arc etc.  Now if I am
 LL> correct, I believe that the program has to be spawned in
 LL> some manner but the couple of C books I have don't seem to
 LL> cover how one would go about doing this. 

You could use system() if your compiler supports it.  Alternatively, you
could use DosExecPgm() directly if you are dealing with OS/2 executables,
or DosStartSession() if you are dealing with non-native programs.  The most
general technique is to use DosExecPgm() to spawn CMD.EXE, which is what
the system() call would do.
 
-- Mike


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