At 15:30 08.11.2002, Ladan Pickering spoke out and said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >I am unable to execute my c++ program from within PHP when it runs as a >cgi in Apache. >I am able to run: > >$cmd="dir c:\abc" >system ($cmd, $errCode); > >and see the content of the directory, but I don't seem to >be able to run a simple hello.exe (c++) file. > >$cmd = "c:\abc\hello.exe"; >system ($cmd, $errCode); --------------------[snip]--------------------
I think you need to either escape the backslash (like c:\\abc\\hello.exe), or simply use forward slashes (as c:/abc/hello.exe). -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/