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Iam using Winexec API to execute a dos exe for formatting disk &nbsp;and when i call this function that dos exe is running in a separate process(child) and parent is going to execute next stmt. but only when that child process(i.e formatting) has completed then only parent should go to next stmt. execution how to know whether child has completed execution so that i can go to next stmt.? I have seen Spawn and exec functions to run dos exe but they are not supported in Win3.11 Please help me? I want in Windows(16bit).
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Iam using Winexec API to execute a dos exe for formatting disk  and when i call this function that dos exe is running in a separate process(child) and parent is going to execute next stmt. but only when that child process(i.e formatting) has completed then only parent should go to next stmt. execution how to know whether child has completed execution so that i can go to next stmt.? I have seen Spawn and exec functions to run dos exe but they are not supported in Win3.11 Please help me? I want in Windows(16bit).

How to make Parent process know that child process has completed?

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