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#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE, HINSTANCE, LPSTR, int)
  {
  char cmd_line[2048];

  // get name and path of the command interpreter
  GetEnvironmentVariable("COMSPEC", cmd_line, sizeof(cmd_line));
  strcat(cmd_line, " /C dir >dirlist.txt"); // add the DOS command
  WinExec(cmd_line, SW_HIDE);
  MessageBox(
    HWND_DESKTOP,
    "Now look at the contents of DirList.txt",
    "",
    MB_OK);
  return 0;
  }
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Microsoft's help on Windows suggests that WinExec will go away back in the 
mid 90's.  Since some of Windows' own code uses it, it is unlikely that 
WinExec will go away.

CreateProcess would also work.

.  Ed

> TerryC wrote in message
> news:42e6608a$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> 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.