Execute system command w/o DOS window?

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From: TerryC
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:10

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I seem to remember a Win32 API function for executing a command
without opening a Command Prompt window to do it.  Could somebody
help me out?

system("<command>") works, but opens the Command Prompt window.

Thanks,
Terry

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