Calling .exe application using C/C++

[bryan523]

Hai, i am Bryan523!
I meet an problem in using C program that
how to calling others .exe application from a C program?
or we have to use C++ to call exe program??
Any example can show this function to me?
Thanks!

[shaticus]

Welcome to PCMech!

The simplest way to do it would probably just do a system call for your program name. Then you could do something like this:

#include
int main()
{
system("ping 127.01");
return 0;
}

just substituting ping 127.01 for the path to the executable you want.

HTH
Shaticus