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In article <4fs44l$3p8@moody.mchh.siemens.de> Ronald Fischer
<ronald.fischer@uebemc.siemens.de> writes:

|> capi@hds.univ-compiegne.fr () wrote:
|> >hello everybody
|> >i hope that i am in the right group !

You're not.  This should have been in comp.os.msdos.programmer.

|> >i want do start the edit.com program via a C file
|> >the cde is c:\dos\edit.com
|> >and the argument is the name of a file, for exemple zoo.asm
|> >
|> >i've try the exec..(path, argv) cde with
|> >path="c:\\dos\\edit.com" and
|> >argv[0]="zoo.asm"
|> >argv[1]=null
|> >
|> >but when edit start i've got an error : incorrect file name (for edit)
|> >where is the error ?
|> >who could help me ?
|> >many thanks for your reply
|> >
|> The correct code is either
|> {
|>   char const path[]="c:\\dos\\edit.com";
|>   execl(path,path,"zoo.asm",0);
                               ^

Wrong.  This is one of the rare cases where you have to cast the 0 (or
NULL) to the correct type.
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