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Starting applications from self written Windows programms

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From: Dirk Fleischmann
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:09
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Hello,

I want to start Windows and DOS programms (e.g. Excel or PKZip) from self 
written Borland C++ (version 3.1) programms. Unfortunately the "orginal" 
functions spawn and exec are only working under DOS, not with Windows?

Any suggestions for solving this problem?

Thanks in advance
Dirk Fleischmann, University Computing Center
	
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From: fleischmann@hrz1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (Dirk Fleischmann)
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Subject: Starting applications from self written Windows programms
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:09:27 GMT
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