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The function system won't hide the console window.

Use CreateProcess or WInExec.  Use GetEnvironmentVariable to get the string
containing the name associated with "COMSPEC" and use that string as the
name of the program to execute.  Use the command line you currently have
with "/C " added at the begininng.

CreateProcess is a bit involved to type in all the args for in a message so
I'll use WinExec instead.  This illustrates the technique:

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  #include <windows.h>

  void RunACommand(const char *cmd_2_run)
      {
      // big buffer because we don't know how big cmd_2_run will be
      char buf[2 * MAX_PATH + 1];

     // get name and path of command processor into 'buf'
      GetEnvironmentVariable("COMSPEC", buf, sizeof(buf));

      // append /c followed by the command to 'buf'
      // lstrlen and wsprintf are Windows functions equivalent
      // to strlen and sprintf
      wsprintf(buf + lstrlen(buf), " /c %s", cmd_2_run);

      // SW_HIDE says to hide the console window
      WinExec(buf, SW_HIDE);
      }

  int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE, HINSTANCE, LPSTR, int)
      {
      // your machine might use c:\windows instead of c:\winnt
      RunACommand("dir /s c:\\winnt\\*.log >loglist.txt");
      return 0;
      }
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.  Ed

> George wrote in message
> news:3fbdc0ec@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> system() seems to be a very good solution. Do you know
> a way to make the window that popups to be hidden
> (invisible) ? With createprocess you can give the process
> the SW_HIDE. What about the system() ?