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- From: keichele@ac.dal.ca (Klaus Eichele)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Starting an application in a Borland C program
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 03:05:55 GMT
- Organization: Dalhousie University
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- limc@cs.man.ac.uk (S93) wrote:
-
- >I have tried to start netscape navigator from within my own Borland C program
- >using the
- >execlp command. But the linker error message > undefined symbol _execlp keeps
- >popping up. I
- >have definitely define the header file process.h, checked the
- >Menu|options|linker, and i even
- >add the header file as a node in the project. Is there anybody who can help?
-
- <code deleted>
-
- Hi,
- I am assuming that your code is for 16 bit Windows. Function _execlp
- and its "relatives" are not portable in this case. Try using
- WinExec().
-
- BTW, comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc would be a better platform for
- questions like this.
-
- Good Luck,
- Klaus
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