RE: Call a command from C on as400

Walt,

By using spawnp (Qp0zSpawnp) instead of plain old spawn you will be able to
do what you want.  According to the UNIX-Type APIs SC41-5875 manual
"spawnp() takes the file parameter and searches the environment variable
PATH. The file parameter is concatenated to each path defined in the PATH
environment variable."

It's probably because I'm on an old release but environment variables always
seemed a little flaky in practice.  I had much better luck when I used
Qp0zPutEnv instead of putenv.

HTH 
Tom D.


 |  -----Original Message-----
 |  From: Walt Fles [mailto:wfles@xxxxxxxxxxx]
 
|  
 |  All,
 |  Im trying to use spawn to call a command without having to 
 |  specify a 
 |  complete path, ie
 |  without having to say "/qsys.lib/mylib.lib/mypgm.pgm"
 |  Is there something I have to set up in my environment?
 |  

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