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- From: apj@beldin.sun.ac.za (Andries Dippenaar)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: Re: executing from within a modula-program
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.101226.10318@hippo.ru.ac.za>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 10:12:26 GMT
- Article-I.D.: hippo.1992Nov12.101226.10318
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- Mark A. Morrell (mgmam@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu) wrote:
- : > I use Topspeed modula 3.1 and had a problem in my last program. Does
- : > anyone know how Ii can execute another program from a modula program so
- :
- : This is a procedure which stuffs a character into the keyboard buffer,
- : and may be of use to you. Stuff the buffer, then exit your program.
- :
- [stuff deleted]
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- That's not one of the better ways of doing it. TopSpeed supplies an
- Execute procedure in Lib if I remember correctly. They've actuallt
- got two flavours, Execute and ExecuteCmd. The former can only be used
- to execute binaries (ie. .COM or .EXE files) and the latter is passed
- a complete DOS commandline (like C's system command) which is then
- executed under COMMAND.COM (actually %COMSPEC) so that you can also
- run batch files. The easiest way to locate it in the libaries is to
- type it in the editor, put the cursor over it and hit F1.
-
- Andries
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