From:	Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject:	Re: How Do I start another DOS program from DJGPP ?
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on Mon, 07 Feb 2000 20:51:09 GMT, arcadepreserv AT hotmail DOT com wrote:

>I am looking for a dosexex("myprog.exe");
>
>type of command, it must be there but what is the syntax and include
>needed ?

Look up system() and spawn*() in the libc docs.

>And then I need the calling program to proceed while the
>called program executes, how do I do this ?

By not using DOS. DOS can't multitask.

>a last question, which is not really essential is how can I read the
>output from the called program from the calling program ?

By redirecting stdout to a temporary file.

foo.exe > filename

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