Re: run a new application

[Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi>]

Jim George writes:
> There is no shell in Windows,

Well, there is obviously no POSIX shell, but there sure is an
interactive command interpreter, cmd.exe. (I am ignoring command.com
in the obsolete Win9x/ME.)

> and there is no argument parsing of the command line, AFAIK

The system() function in the Microsoft C library *does* pass the
string to cmd.exe to be executed by that. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/HTML/_crt_system.2c_._wsystem.asp
Thus I/O redirection should work.

--tml