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    Press any key to continue...

    Whenever the console program ends in MSVC++ 6, it always says Press any key to continue. How do I get rid of that?

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    &TH of undefined behavior Fordy's Avatar
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    Run the thread from the dos prompt....not Bulid->Execute inside of MSVC

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    Is there another way? I can't tell the user to "Go open this program in the dos prompt" because most of the users are going to be lazy and/or stupid.

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    Unless you're distributing all the source files and getting the users to build, link and execute the program from within their copies of MSVC, it'll be ok.

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    Isn't there just a simple command to just close the window? If there isn't there really should be.

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    You don't need it, MSVC(the IDE) keeps the window open. Executing the program in any other environment will result in normal behaviour.

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    well you can create an bat file which opens dos prompt fro whic the file is run....

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    If you run the executable directly instead of running it from MSVC++ then it will close automatically when the program ends.

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    If your users are lazy enough not to open DOS prompt, then create a ShortCut on the Desktop, or use the Start -> Run command.

    Basically you have to understand that the "Press any key to continue..." prompt is added by the Visual C++ environment, and is not a part of your program. So whenever you run your program individually, this will not be there.

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