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echo: os2prog
to: Lawrence Lucier
from: Colin Thomson
date: 1996-03-22 07:03:00
subject: Running external program

Hello Lawrence,

SB> 
SB>  LL> Newbie to C programming here.  Am using emx09b and project manager
SB>  LL> to learn with.  I would like to play around with writing an interface
SB>  LL> that would call (amongst others) such programs as PKZIP, zip, pak, arc
SB>  LL> etc.  Now if I am correct, I believe that the program has to be
SB>  LL> spawned in some manner but the couple of C books I have don't seem to
SB>  LL> cover how one would go about doing this. 
SB> 
SB>         Look at the EMX documentation for SPAWN and EXEC.
 
But if you want to start programs in a different session type, you'd
be better off looking at the API docs for DosStartSession.             
                                                                       
         

Colin.

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