OpenEuphoria

RE: Creating directories and restarting a computer

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Mar 06, 2001
• 425 views

Humberto wrote:
> To create a directory:
> system("mkdir " & dir_name,2)

If you are doing a Windows program, this will cause a DOS console to pop 
up.  If you don't want that, there is a library in the Euphoria archives 
that uses the Windows API to create directories:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/win32fil.zip

> To restart in Linux:
> system("halt",2)
> --User must have permission to "halt"
>
> I'm not sure how to do it in windows... Since I always
> restart using the GUI.

To restart windows, use ExitWindowsEx in User32.dll.  I don't know if 
there is an existing library that has this function wrapped. For more 
info see:

> 
> 
> --- tuncaydin6 at tuncaydin6.screaming.net wrote:
> > Hi!!
> > 
> > I have two questions. How can I restart a computer
> > using Euphoria. I have a program I wrote and I need
> > to restart a computer before the settings activate.
> > Is there a command or system routine.
> > 
> > Secondly how do you create new directories.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Martin
> 
> 
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