system("ANYTHING");

[Antone333]

so i am working on a pretty basic text based RPG. and i made another post with my previous code. i have greatly revised it since then to actually use more then just 1 function (int main ())
this can be found here:
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/115197/

but now i am wondering, why should i not be using 'system("");' commands? i have been using system("cls"); to clear the console screen and it works perfectly fine.

can someone explain what is wrong with doing that and also what would be an alternative to clear the screen?

[Albatross]

Have some articles!

Article on why system() is evil: http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/j3wTURfi/
Article on how you can clear the screen: http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/4z18T05o/

Many thanks to Duoas for writing these~

-Albatross

[Dy7SLyTq]

so ive been meaning to ask this anyways and this seems like a good place to do it:
what is the best way to run exes/elfs inside another process. i would prefer cross platform but will take solutions for either *nix or windows

[S6k9GNh0]

Boost has a Process library.

POSIX which has a layer on just about any major platform can uses exec ( http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exec.html )

[Antone333]

Thank you very much for the links Albatross!