what is the counterpart of

start program.exe

in c++?

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system(program.exe)

system(program.exe)

well i do not want to use the system syntax, isn't there any other way to open a program in c++?

well i do not want to use the system syntax, isn't there any other way to open a program in c++?

No there isn't. You have to resort to OS specific functions to start programs.

system() is a c and c++ function. Otherwise you have to use os-specific functions such as the spawn family of functions on *nix, of ShellExecute() and CreateProcess() on MS-Windows.

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