Ibrahim F Haddad wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I used to do a system call to 'sort' and 'fit_it' passing to it a 
> fixed file name as:
> 
> system ("slider 10 | fit_it -f Acocomo-log -xmgr | xmgr-dynamic -source
> stdin&");
>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^
> where Acocomo-log is the file name to be used.
> 
> However, i added some more functionality as i made the file 
> name specified by the user in a (char *fileName);
> 
> So, how i do a system call with a variable name since the system
> call would then search for file fileName?

char buff[1024];
snprintf(buff, sizeof(buff),
         "slider 10 | fit_it -f %s -xmgr | xmgr-dynamic -source stdin &",
         filename);
system(buff);

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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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