hi im trying to make a program for a friend. He wants it to open up a program when you enter the parameters for it. So if i entered "C:/somefile.exe" then pressed enter, that file would open. I tried to make a string called prog then i made the user enter where and what the file was called then i did system(prog); but that didnt work. How do i make that work or is there another way to approach this? thnx