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Re: Help - DOS commands from program...

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From: Jeff Meyers
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 08:34
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In article <douglas.728190495@willow.cs.scarolina.edu> douglas@cs.scarolina.edu (G. David Douglas Jr.) writes:
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>With the exec command you're using, do you give it
>the name of the file and the parameters to pass to the utility
>(e.g.  exec('C:\COMMAND.COM', '/C CD C:\'); )  or does it

Yep, that's the form.  The first parameter is any program name, the second
parameter is the command line arguments to give to that program.  I am
using Turbo Pascal 6.0 and DOS 5 for what it's worth...

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From: jmeyers@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jeff Meyers)
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Subject: Re: Help - DOS commands from program...
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