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1992-12-26
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/*
** SHEL2DOS.C - Shell to DOS from a running program
**
** Original Copyright 1989-1991 by Bob Stout as part of
** the MicroFirm Function Library (MFL)
**
** This subset version is hereby donated to the public domain.
*/
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
int shell_to_DOS(void)
{
char *comspec, prompt[256];
comspec = getenv("COMSPEC");
if(comspec == NULL)
comspec = "COMMAND.COM"; /* Better than nothing... */
sprintf(prompt, "PROMPT=[Type EXIT to return to program]\r\n%s",
getenv("PROMPT"));
putenv(prompt);
return spawnlp(0, comspec, NULL, "/p", NULL);
}
#ifdef TEST
#include <stdio.h>
void main(void)
{
int retval = shell_to_DOS();
printf("shell_to_DOS() returned %d\n", retval);
}
#endif