can the procedure in the program be hidden?

is there any way to hidden the procedure performed by the program which is the system("") command?

e.g.
i have a sentence :

system("map delete m:");

when i run the program, "map delete m:" will pop up in the dos prompt... is there ay way to hidden that?

thank you for helping.

try clearing the screen immediately after that using system("CLS") or something like that :D

or change the font color to black?

You could use the old DOS .bat stuff:

system("echo off");
system("cls");
system(...);
system("echo on");

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Originally posted by Jasonymk
is there any way to hidden the procedure performed by the program which is the system("") command?

e.g.
i have a sentence :

system("map delete m:");

when i run the program, "map delete m:" will pop up in the dos prompt... is there ay way to hidden that?

thank you for helping.

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or you could use "map delete m: > NUL" which will re-direct the output from the 'map' command to the file you specify (in this case NUL which will simply ignore it).

I know this works in DOS and in a "dos box" in windows, I however don't know if it would work in the *nix environment as I have (sadly) never had the opportunity to really play around with.

You can test it out by going to the command prompt and typing

"dir"

and then

"dir > NUL"

and then

"dir > result.txt"

The first will show you the directory.
The second will show you nothing.
The third will create a file called 'result.txt' and redirect the output from the dir into that text file.

Hope this helps. :)

-jEssYcAt

thank you soo much!!!

On a side note jEssYcAt:

the same thing is achieved in *nix environment like this:

Code:

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some_command > /dev/null

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where /dev/null is a special file which discards everything it recieves.
(sort of like a black hole ;))

--Placid

With regards to mapping a drive, this maybe another option for you to use:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de..._functions.asp
Haven't used it myself, but APIs are usually a better way to do business with the OS than simply system()'ing a command to it.