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"Society everywhere is in {*filter*} against the manhood of every one of its
members.  Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the
better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and
culture of the eater.  The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance
is its aversion.  It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist."
                                                 -R. W. Emerson

In Unix, system() passes its argument to a Bourne shell to be interpreted
and executed as a command line, so you can take advantage of all the sh
features.  Of course, you can start scripts written in whatever
scripting language you want.

Dan
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Dan Pop
CERN, CN Division

Mail:  CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland

    I use the system command all the time, and execl sometimes.

  If your shell scripts start with #!/bin/sh to force the shell type,
things are easier.  If you have arguments you need to pass, do something
like:
sprintf(cmd,"lpc stop %s",prt);
system(cmd);

   to force a specific shell you could:
sprintf(cmd,"/bin/csh -c %s",shell_cmd);

    system();
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