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Hi oddbin,<br />
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There are several ways to do this.<br />
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- &nbsp;If you're looking for a simple way to pause the program and run another, system() is probably the easiest.<br />
- &nbsp;If you want to run another program and read it's output (or send data to it) check out popen().<br />
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What are you trying to accomplish?<br />
Kent
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Hi oddbin,

There are several ways to do this.

-  If you're looking for a simple way to pause the program and run another, system() is probably the easiest.
-  If you want to run another program and read it's output (or send data to it) check out popen().


What are you trying to accomplish?
Kent

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I just need to be able to execute a script of executable and pass them parameters. <br />
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system is not recommended so i'd prefer not to use it. It would seem the ShellExecute is the way to go, i jst need help coding it. 
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I just need to be able to execute a script of executable and pass them parameters.

system is not recommended so i'd prefer not to use it. It would seem the ShellExecute is the way to go, i jst need help coding it.

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Hi, <br />
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I'm looking for code to allow me to execute commands outside from my DLL. Just need to execute scripts and execuatbel etc. <br />
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I have been looking at the ShellExecute whcih seems suitable but could someone let me know if this is the best appraoch and if so, can you tell me how I use the GertLastError if it fails so I can print out the details. <br />
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Thanks <br />
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Hi, 

I'm looking for code to allow me to execute commands outside from my DLL. Just need to execute scripts and execuatbel etc. 

I have been looking at the ShellExecute whcih seems suitable but could someone let me know if this is the best appraoch and if so, can you tell me how I use the GertLastError if it fails so I can print out the details. 

Thanks 



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