Re: [Mingw-users] C programming question

[Greg C. <chi...@mi...>]

Hammamur Rahman wrote:
> 
> Hi!, does anyone know how to open a text document with say notepad from a c
> program.  I thought you could do the following, but it does not work.
> 
>   FILE *fd = popen("notepad Help.txt", "r");
>   pclose(fd);

To open files with the 'associated' programs: ShellExecute().
To run a program whose selection you control: CreateProcess().