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2006-10-06 10:53:41 PM
cppbuilder85
I have been playing with Turbo C for many years, and am far from
experienced.
I would like an example of how to call an external .exe or .bat file.
I am using version 3.0 (I know, it's old).
Thanks
 

You must have Turbo C++ as there never was a Turbo C version 3.0.
You can use the function 'system' to run an executable *.exe or *.com file
or interpret a *.bat file.
*.exe and *.com files can also be executed with any of the spawn* or exec*
sets of functions. A batch file cannot be run by them because it is not an
executable. However you can get them to interpret a batch file if you run
the command interpreter, command.com, with the batch file name as the
command line argument.
If what you have is Turbo C++ for Windows then you can also execute a *.exe
or *.com file with the Windows function WinExec.
. Ed