using other exe's

[cyberpirate]

i would like to know how to make my program execute other exe's like i clicked on them

[Zaita]

on Windows CreateProcess()
on Linux exec()

:)

[cyberpirate]

thanks

[Duthomhas]

Beware that they are not equivalent, though. You have to do some special magic with a fork to use exec. ;-)

[tombert]

windows

system("start c:\whateverdirectories")

this is like telling dos to open it up