From: davecook AT home DOT com (David M. Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: After you read this PLEASE DONT FLAME ME!
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Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 05:20:45 GMT
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On Wed, 7 Oct 1998 22:51:56 -0400, Joshua Tacey <josht AT softhouse DOT com> wrote:

>How do you run a program inside a program?

If you aren't interested in sending input or getting output use system().
Otherwise use popen().  Someone suggested one of the exec() calls, but that
will exit the current program and not come back unless you use fork() to
create another branch.

>Like as the last part of your program, it runs another program.

Then exec() would be appropriate, since it's the last thing to execute.

Dave Cook