Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/13/84; site intelca.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!intelca!cem From: cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: how to execute programs from within cpm programs Message-ID: <38@intelca.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 11:41:25 EDT Article-I.D.: intelca.38 Posted: Tue Aug 13 11:41:25 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 23:40:50 EDT References: <946@sdcsla.UUCP> <124@wlcrjs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, Ca. Lines: 21 > In article <946@sdcsla.UUCP> hestenes@sdcsla.UUCP (Eric Hestenes) writes: >Can anyone give me a hint as to how someone would call one program, >say WORDSTAR or something simpler, from within another program. > >Methods using Turbo Pascal, 'C' or assembler would be useful. > Aside from the fact that Turbo Pascal provides the function Execute(FilVar) where FilVar is the name of the program to run, if you want to be really slick, you could run ZCPR3 and stuff the name of the file to run (and all of its arguments) into the External Command line buffer and then exit to the CCP. Next thing running would be your program. (I have done this from turbo and found the results to be rather effective. --Chuck -- "Unix, the Teco of Operating Systems." - - - D I S C L A I M E R - - - {ihnp4,fortune}!dual\ All opinions expressed herein are my {qantel,idi}-> !intelca!cem own and not those of my employer, my {ucbvax,hao}!hplabs/ friends, or my avocado plant. :-}