can i run any exe file form c or c++ languge code

shafiq

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shafiq

what kinda question is that?

hi ...
i really dont understand what is ur question ???
but why do u need to run a exe file using c coding ...if u want to result that exe file(if its a c/c++ coding) then u can use it as the header file in ur c program ...

ur question is incomplete ...

Do you mean injecting and exe file into your program?
If so then google it.

system ("prog.exe");

HTH

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 system("prog.exe") is great if you don't care about the input/output of the program. You might also want to look into the 'popen()' function -- popen() lets you get a file descriptor so you can read or write to the programs standard input/output. For example, you could popen('ftp.exe') and write ftp commands to it using fputs or whatever, or popen('top') and read process information from the 'top' command just like it was a file.

Regards,
Meredith Shaebanyan

hi merediths

could you give me a good example on what you just said in your post!!!
This is very impressive answer you gave here, and this is perhaps just
the right thing i need!!!
But in code not words :-)
But don't be to mean with code, something simple will do just fine,
just to see how it works!
Perhaps example with "ftp.exe" would be good.

C or C++ code, it doesn't matter

greetings: icopec
from : Croatia

Hey Merediths,

Yah, but popen isn't part of ANSI C, and shafiq (I'm guessing) is on a windoze system. I'm not sure if windows supports popen(), as you're essentially opening a UNIX pipe. Anyhow, here's a bit of demo code. Works on Linux, YMMV.

/*
 * Purpose: Program to demonstrate the popen function.
 *
 * to do: Check that the 'popen' was successfull.
 *
 * Author: M J Leslie.
 * Date: 08-Jan-94
*/

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
  FILE *fp;
  char line[130]; /* line of data from unix command*/

  fp = popen("ls -l", "r"); /* Issue the command. */

                    /* Read a line */
  while ( fgets( line, sizeof line, fp))
  {
    printf("%s", line);
  }
  pclose(fp);
}

HTH

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