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Author It's silly question time
Simon Hart

2004-03-27, 12:21 am

Hi folks.

I've hunted high and low but still an't find how to do this. I want to run a
programme from inside Delphi. In C it would be something like...

execl("c:\foo\bar.exe");

Blowed if I can find it!

The other thing I want to find out is what parameters the windows "Format"
command takes. What I'm after doing is formatting a disk programatically and
then making it bootable, as in the old DOS "Format c: /s".

Anyone know how to do the execl() and where to find the command line params
for format, et al?

Ta muchly!

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Simon Hart
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KLinZ

2004-03-27, 12:21 am

Simon Hart wrote:

> I've hunted high and low but still an't find how to do this. I want
> to run a programme from inside Delphi. In C it would be something
> like...
>
> execl("c:\foo\bar.exe");


Use either CreateProcess or ShellExecute. There also is the more simple
function WinExec, but it is deprecated.

> The other thing I want to find out is what parameters the windows
> "Format" command takes. What I'm after doing is formatting a disk
> programatically and then making it bootable, as in the old DOS
> "Format c: /s".


Hmm, well. Try SHFormatDrive:


http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...l/reference/fun
ctions/shformatdrive.asp

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