making executable that executes an file

Howdy! <p>That shouldn't be a big problem ... but I just know c, so I will post it in c.
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#include <stdio.h><p>int main() {
    char *to_exec;    //the programmes that are to be run
    const char *path = "shell.ini"; //the path to the shell.ini or whatever you name the file
    FILE *f; <p>   f = fopen(path,"r"); //open the file in rea mode
    while(fscanf(f,"%s",&to_exec) != EOF) { //read as long till you come to the end of the file (line by line
           system(to_exec); //execute every command
    }
    close(f) //close file again <p>   return 1;
}
</pre><hr></blockquote><p>It has been a little while since I programmed in C, but I hope everything is right. Your shell.ini should look like this:
c:something.exe
d:folderprogramme.exe
etc. 
Every line in teh shell.ini stands for one command...<p>I hope you understand everything, otherwise you ask...<p>CU Az

but your path has to be one word, so replace scanf with gets or fscanf with fgets (and replace the n with )
look in your compiler's help

be satisfied. this is correct c++.
while writing n I thought the escape sequence meaning NEWLINE. just n (10).
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for (int i = strlen(s) - 1; i >= 0; i--)
   if (s[i] == 'n') {
     s[i] = 0;
     break;
   }
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should work (it's C++ - the "int i" in the for-loop wouldn't be allowed in "Old Plain C")

what can i say ... thank you !
it goes to show how good this board is as i posted the same topic on 3 some other boards and got no reply<p>but there is still an minor problem
when using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 to compile i get the following 2 errors :<p>: error C2065: 'system' : undeclared identifier
: error C2065: 'strlen' : undeclared identifier<p>this is the code i used ... notice i added an return 0; at the end of it
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#include <stdio.h>
#define N 256
int main()
{ 
    char link[N]; 
    const char *path = "shell.ini"; 
    FILE *f = fopen(path, "r"); 
    while ( fgets(link, N, f) ) 
    {   
    for (int i = strlen(link) - 1; i >= 0; i--)
    if (link[i] == 'n')   
    {
     link[i] = 0; 
     break;     
     } 
     system(link);
      }
     return 0;
}
</pre><hr></blockquote><p>bythe way i have to ask this is there any diference between visualC++ (VC++) and C++ or its the same language ?<p>[ 16.01.2002: Beitrag editiert von: developed ]</p>

well whitehouse you are right again ...i included and it works like an charm
i hope i will be able to make it up for this....my friends tell me my im really good at graphics so if u ever need some grafix work feel free to ask