Bob.Stout@p6.f506.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Bob Stout) (11/09/89)
In an article of <6 Nov 89 07:33:21 GMT>, (Bob Calbridge) writes: >.... I invoke spawn in the form > >spawn (P_WAIT, defaults.dflt_ed, defaults.last_file, NULL); Try instead: spawnlp(P_WAIT, defaults.dflt_ed, defaults.deflt_ed, defaults.last_file, NULL); The spawnlp() function, means that the arguments are passed in the call as a NULL terminated list and that the PATH is searched to find the program to be executed. The first reference to defaults.dflt_ed is the actual name of the program to be spawned. The second is argv[0] and unused by DOS, but still required. Finally the arguments are passed beginning with argv[1] which, in your case, is defaults.last_file.