On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:25:37AM +0900, Michael Bruschkewitz wrote: > Hello, > I found this strange behaviour of system(), which is really annoying: > > system ("start dir") fails, unless a file start.cmd (all executable > extensions possible?) exists in the current directory (path?). Or start.exe or start.bat presumably. I don't understand what you think it should do instead? system("foo") runs command "foo"