Thread: Help Needed

ok, I am a newbie to c & I want to make a basic program in ms-dos. But I can never seem to execute commands properly, check this out:

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#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
system("dir");
}
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Now when I compile & run this thing it never works, all it is supposed to do is the 'dir' command in ms-dos but all I get is a blank black screen.

What am I doing wrong here people?

Works fine on my machine (Windows NT/VC++ 6.0):

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
  system("dir");
  getchar();
  return 0;
}

Also works fine with me (Windows 98/GCC 3.03.

What OS and compiler are you using?

I am using Windows 98 with the Miracle C compiler, But that code worked fine, thanx. Must have just been the return 0;

ahh crap, it don't work but I thought it did

I was typing dir.exe (the name of the program) to execute it & it just brang up a list of directories, but when I renamed it & executed it again I found out that it didn't actually work.

Anybody know what the problem is?

> Miracle C compiler
This isn't an ANSI-C compiler - you're going to miss out on some things.

http://www.compilers.net/
http://www.thefreecountry.com/developercity/index.html
http://www.borland.com/bcppbuilder/freecompiler/

ok thanx, it was just the compiler . I can now execute commands like dir, time & date in ms-dos.

But how would I go about doing commands such as cd c:\?
I tried system("cd c:\"); without any luck.

This is the last question I will ask.

Many Thanx