Thread: running executables with system("ren ....")

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    Unregistered Leeman_s's Avatar
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    running executables with system("ren ....")

    I want to run telnet from my program. That is, run the telnet service on the computer running the program, not telnet as in using the telnet.

    If you double click tlntsvr.exe the telnet service starts up. If my programs runs, it does not.

    system("ren C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\tlntsvr.exe");

    There are no warnings or compile errors, anybody know why the line doesn't do the same thing as double-clicking the icon?

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    Maybe because the ren command renames a file?

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    lol god am i stupid.

    well this didn't work anyhow:

    system("C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\tlntsvr.exe");

    is there another command im supposed to use?

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    Originally posted by Leeman_s
    lol god am i stupid.

    well this didn't work anyhow:

    system("C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\tlntsvr.exe");

    is there another command im supposed to use?
    Should you have two slashes after WINDOWS?

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    Originally posted by beege31337
    Should you have two slashes after WINDOWS?
    In a standard string, you should always have two slashes in a row when you want to actually end up with one single slash in the line. The reason for this is that with characters and strings, the \ is considered an escape character. Once it sees that, it translates the following character into an escape sequence:

    \\ == one slash
    \n == new line
    \r == carriage return

    And so on...

    So, every \ should actually be two in that sequence, not just the first two. Alternately for paths you can just use the / instead of \\. In their case, the final "\t" turns into a tab instead of a backslash and the letter T.

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