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- From: anonymous@atl.mindspring.com
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- Subject: Re: Invoke a outside utility from c program in MS-Window environments
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 21:02:28 GMT
- Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc.
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- haiz@crucis.usc.edu (Hai Zhang) wrote:
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- >Hi,
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- >I am new to program in MS-Window and have following question:
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- >I try to write a c application in MS-Windows environment. In one
- >procedure I want user input a file name and compress the corresponding
- >file. I want to use pkzip to do the real job. My question is whether
- >it is possible to invoke a outside utility such as pkzip in MS-Windows.
- >In unix I could use system() function or even execl or execv().
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- >I do not want to buy a separate library package from pkware, since I
- >will only use small part of the compressing utility.
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- >Thanks
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- >Bing Zhang
- >Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
- >University of Southern California
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- Can you do OLE with this? If so, try embedding a PIF
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