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puterkrazy

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Can someone help with spawning a dqy file?
_spawnlp(P_NOWAIT, "dqyfile.dqy", "dqyfile.dqy", NULL) gives an error -1.
Thanks in advance.
 
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Look at the error number associated with that error status.

Does it say "file not found" or "not executable" (or something else)?

My guess is, spawn() doesn't understand file associations, so you need to run the actual application which reads DQY files, and list your file as a command line parameter.

Also look at CreateProcess() and/or ShellExecute()
 
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