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RE: system_exec()

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Jul 11, 2003
• 461 views

Juergen Luethje wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently noticed, that on my system (Win 98/1st ed., Eu 2.4), after
> calling 'system_exec("foo.exe", i)' my interpreted Eu program doesn't
> continue with the next statement, but waits, until execution of 
> 'foo.exe'
> is finished. For instance try:
>    if system_exec("calc", 2) then end if
>    puts(1, "Hi there.")
>    if getc(0) then end if
> 
> This behaviour is very useful in certain situations. Unfortunately, I
> noticed it, when I had almost finished writing my own routine with this
> functionality. 
> At least on Win 98/1st ed., system() behaves differently. It does *not*
> wait for the termination of the called program.
> 
> Is the behaviour of system()/system_exec() the same on all windows
> platforms? How about Linux/FreeBSD? I think this should be clearly
> documented.
> 
> Best regards,
>    Juergen
> 
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Hi Juergen,

I myself only use those functions when there is absolutely no
other way of doing something 
Can you use the win api?

Take care,
Al