From: "Edmund Horner" <ejrh AT paradise DOT net DOT nz>
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Subject: Re: How can I spawn a DJGPP program under Windows ?
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You could spawn \WINDOWS\START.EXE, with the name of the other dos program
as the argument, eg:

int spawn_program (char *prog)
{
    char line[MAX_PATH];
    sprintf (line, "c:/windows/start.exe %s", prog);
    return system(line);
}

<cat AT animal DOT u-net DOT com> wrote in message news:39c4f6b2$1 AT news DOT gemsoft DOT net...
>
>
>      Please advise me.
>      I have a program compiled under DJGPP where I can launch MSIE
> applications from the DOS console, and a new browser appears and
> goes to the desired URL. The DOS console application remains running
> in parallel. The same happens with notepad and Winzip etc. However
> I cannot create another copy of the DOS console using the same
> application. Are there any fancy interrupts which could be used to
> do something like that.
>
>           Tony Goddard
>           http://www.d4maths.co.uk/mirage
>
>