question about c.

I'm pretty new to c programming so plz dont flame me if this is a newbie question but is there a way u could open a different program with an .exe extension w/ a c program.

like for example would this work?

fp = fopen("file.exe", ??);

ty for your help

This is C, a computer language...Anything will work, you just have to know how to devise the right scripts. There is a way for all.

That would open the file. The question is if opening the file is really what you want to do.

Well I run bots on my computer all day when I'm not at home and the new one crashes quite a bit. I was wanting to make a program that would just restart it for me everytime it turns off. This is my script:

#include <stdio.h>
FILE *fp;

int main(void)
{
fp = fopen("mephbot.exe", "???");

if(fclose(fp))
{
fp = fopen("mephbot.exe", "???");
}

return 0;
}


I was thinking that would do it but it does absolutely nothing...doesn't even start my program. Mephbot.exe is the name of the program I did check that and where I put the question marks I have tried many differen combos. Any help as to why this is not working would be helpful...thnx

VB is much nicer for writing these kind of programs, if you have it, Ill tell you how to write it.

You want to execute, not open the program. I can't help you on that one if you're trying to do it in a DOS program. If you can use the windows API, look at ShellExecute and ShellExecuteEx .
And if you have computers with compilers at school (read CS lab), and they have VC++, and they have fortress or some other lock out program, I have the source for a very interesting, um, utillity that I wrote, that can, um, supliment the run box by convincing windows that text files are really executable without renaming them, yeah. (In other words, this source turns VC on a computer into a nice way to run WinAmp and such on computers that wouldn't normally allow it)

mjordan2nd: Tells us what compilers you have; straight c is old, and hard to work with.

i have dev-c++ compiler.

mjordan2nd: Try this, should work in any c compiler that supports Win32. It'll run Notepad untill you quit it via the taskmanager.....

#include <windows.h>

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE handle,HINSTANCE dontcare,PSTR cli,int showflags);

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE handle,HINSTANCE dontcare,PSTR cli,int showflags) {
STARTUPINFO startup;
PROCESS_INFORMATION process;

GetStartupInfo(&startup); /* Just copy the current process startup info. */
do {
if (!CreateProcess("c:\\WINNT\\System32\\NotePad.EXE" ,NULL,NULL,NULL,FALSE,NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,NULL,N ULL,&startup,&process)) {
MessageBox(NULL,"Can't launch app.","Applauncher",MB_ICONWARNING|MB_OK);
exit(1); /* can't create process, die. */
}
WaitForSingleObject(process.hProcess,INFINITE); /* Wait for the process to die. */

} while (1);
return 0;
}

thank u mr rooster...ill try it and c if it works, never done any windows programming so ill c...thank u