system() without a DOS box popping out

Hello,

I kept using system("delete blah"); etc to delete files or directory, but whenever that happens, a DOS box runs out. Well, now I found that you can use DeleteFile(), but what about if you wanna do other stuff like open a PDF file by calling an external, or do a "run.." thing ?

Cheers

http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284392
Try CreateProcess and ShellExecute

ShellExecute would be the easiest, as you can pass in the path to the PDF file, and it will open whatever application is setup to handle that set of files (Adobe Acrobat usually)

awesome thanks