Calling a webpage

[Duckz]

Hello

I'm extremely new to programming. So new, I learned a tiny bit of Pascal last week for the first time. I've moved onto 'C' because my friend is a programmer and finds 'C' easier to teach.

I would like to call a webpage. I'm already using the following code to call my webbrowser:

_spawnl( _P_DETACH ,"C:\\PROGRA~1\\INTERN~1\\iexplore.exe",NULL);

As you can probably guess, my friend helped me with that. He used that instead of system() (which I tried to use) because it opens the process in a new thread. (Is that right?).

Anyway, using the above code, is there any way to open a browser at a specific page? It needs to allow the rest of my programming to continue working, which system() did not.

I'm sorry if this is basic, but I've never programmed in my life. Many Thanks for any help.

Lee

[tabstop]

I would guess you should not ignore the extra arguments to _spawnl, but instead use them to pass the name of the site you want opened between the "iexplore.exe" and the NULL.

(Also, your belief that system() did not allow "the rest of your program[] to continue working" is false. Like many languages, C executes statements in order, so the next statement in the row will happen just as soon as this one finishes, that is, when the system call finishes.)

[Salem]

> "C:\\PROGRA~1\\INTERN~1\\iexplore.exe"
Are you using an old compiler which doesn't understand spaces in filenames, nor filenames longer than 8 characters?

[matsp]

> "C:\\PROGRA~1\\INTERN~1\\iexplore.exe"
Are you using an old compiler which doesn't understand spaces in filenames, nor filenames longer than 8 characters?

I bet it's another Turbo C user... And Turbo C doesn't allow long filenames [or it's a copy''paste from Turbo Pascal or some such].

Not to mention "What happens if I have deleted my internet explorer and replaced it with Firefox?"

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Mats

[mramazing]

Internet explorer has command line arguments to open webpages. But why are you using iexplorer? and is spawnl a windows specific thing similar to exec?