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In article <1993Jan7.140524.15787@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jmt7@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOHN M. TROIANO) writes:

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   Hi, I am the original poster of this problem: this is especially to
   Tim and Wolfgang. I tried the code below (which is I think what both
   of you guys are suggesting) but it does'nt work (the new prompt
   string is ignored). Any ideas?     - John.

   #include <stdio.h>
   #include <process.h>
   #include <dos.h>
   #include <stdlib.h>

   int main( int argc, char *argv[], char **envp )
   {

   printf( "\ninside main, spawning DOS\n" );
   sleep( 2 );

   putenv( "prompt=$_type EXIT to return to program $_$_$p$g" );

   spawnlpe( P_WAIT, "command.com", NULL, envp );

   printf( "\nback from spawn!\n" );

   sleep( 2 );

   }



Sigh.  Please RTFM.  The third parameter to spawn???() is argv[], a list of
parameters to the spawned executable.  This means that argv[0] must be the
name of the executable.  I know this seems redundant, but it does have a
purpose (changing path information, passing info to the child program, etc.).

Change the spawn???() command to the following, and the program should work:

	spawnlpe(P_WAIT, "command.com", "command.com", NULL, envp);
                                ^              ^              
                                |              |        
                               path         argv[0]     


Chris Fortier
Borland C++ Run Time Library QA

cfortier@borland.com