system() problem
Michael Hirmke
mh@mike.franken.de
Sun Jan 18 16:07:00 GMT 1998
Hi Dezso,
[...]
>#include <stdlib.h>
>int main (void)
>{
> int i;
> i = system ("dir");
> return i;
>}
>
>When I run the program it prints "failure!!!!!" and returns -1.
>The system() did not work with any other arguments I tried except NULL when
> it returned 1 (and
>there was no failure message then).
>
>Is it a bug or did I do something wrong?
Don't know, what you did wrong. Your code works here without any
problem. Even if not, I can't imagine, who or what is responsible for
the "failure" printout. Neither dir nor the system function ever print
such a message.
>
>Thank you,
>
> Dezso Kovacs
Bye.
Michael.
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