problem using _spawnl()

[Francis Hoang]

Hello all,

can anyone point out what is wrong with the following usage of spawn ?

if (_spawnl(_P_WAIT, "c:\\windows\\command\\xcopy.exe",
"c:\\_dev\\newstock\\in\\*.dat", "c:\\_dev\newstock\\out\\", NULL) == 0)

DebugOut("spawn success\n");

Thanks in advance.

Francis.

[Dan Evens]

Is that where xcopy.exe resides on your system? On
my NT box it sits in C:\WINNT\system32

Do the directories indicated actually exist?
Are there in fact any .dat files in the "in" dir?

Have you considered using CreateProcess instead
of spawn?
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Dan Evens
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