try this link below http://www.dotnetspider.com/technology/ http://www.programmingtutorials.com/vbnet.aspx http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/Sections/Tutorials.asp most of the site teach u by showing example.....you can learn from the examples....;)

Seeing as 'ls' only exists on Unix, then I will assume that is the platform you are programming for. To control the standard output/input you need to do change the target for them in the child process (you should be using fork if you are using execl). This can be achieved with the 'dup2' command: int myfd = open ("somefile.txt", O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0777); dup2 (myfd, STDOUT_FILENO); This re-maps the stdout output to your own file. You can then call 'execlp' to load ls, and the output will go to your file

you defined a variable called "exception" on line 759 of project.cpp. You never bothered using it. Sorry to dissapoint you all with my lack of a witty or poignant signature.

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Yes, return a pointer to the array. /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com

See to: MFC samples by VC6

Jamie Hale wrote: I would have guessed they were asking for the simple fopen(), fgets(), etc. I had a look at those functions last night ( fulfilling a contract at the last minute, he wanted me to use them ), and I thought they looked way ugly. I try to avoid C functions whenever I can. Jamie Hale wrote: But this is a nice solution. Prolly waaaaay over the poster's head. Probably. My hope was by showing an elegant C++ way of doing it that he may well dig deeper and analyse why it all works. That's how I learned most of the standard C++ stuff I know, by asking questions on comp.lang.c++, making a fool of myself often, and spending a lot of time trying to figure out what the answers I was given meant. Christian I have come to clean zee pooollll. - Michael Martin Dec 30, 2001 Picture the daffodil. And while you do that, I'll be over here going through your stuff. Picture a world without war, without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they would never expect it. Sonork ID 100.10002:MeanManOz I live in Bob's HungOut now

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I guess technically speaking there is a difference. PASCAL strings i think have a runlength encoding byte at index zero. I've always considered them to be synonymous while using Visuall C++. your bad is my bad brutha!:) "An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in thier field" - Niels Bohr

What we need is an intelligent post parser, that will detect key words/phrases like "How do I return a value" and also filter out suspicious code listings. Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

It's a C thing not a C++ thing. C++ has the wonderful STL where we can using strings, instead of declaring character arrays - heck even MFC provides a CString class. Most of the crap in C++ can be blamed on C programmers :-D Michael :-)