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- From: jmeyers@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jeff Meyers)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Help - DOS commands from program...
- Message-ID: <1k4gi7INNou2@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:13:11 GMT
- Organization: California State University, Chico
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- I have written a simple installation program in Turbo Pascal and am having
- trouble executing DOS commands from within this program.
-
- If the user types "a:install" everything works fine. But, if they log to
- the floppy first, then run install ( A:\>install <cr> ) things choke.
-
- Specifically, the destination directory is not created and so the files
- are all copied into a file in the root directory. I use the Turbo Pascal
- command exec() to call the following command:
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- \command.com /C md C:\DEST
-
- I also had trouble logging drives and changing directories under program
- control, but got around that by haveing the install program create the
- appropriate batch file, then executing it...
-
- Question: am I missing something? Why don't the DOS commands work the
- same as at the command line??
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