Starting a Child Process

CHAR        szClient[7];                   /* ASCII form of win handle   */
CHAR        LoadError[100];                /* Buffer for failure reason  */
RESULTCODES ReturnInfo;                    /* Returned info from call    */
PID         pidServer;                     /* Child process id           */
APIRET      rc;                            /* Return code                */
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itoa(hWnd, szClient);                      /* Convert handle to ASCII    */

rc = DosExecPgm(LoadError,                 /* Start child process        */
                sizeof(LoadError),         /* Size of buffer             */
                EXEC_ASYNCRESULT,          /* Execute asynchronously     */
                szClient,                  /* Window handle in ASCII     */
                0,                         /* No new environment vars    */
                &ReturnInfo,               /* Returned info address      */
                "server.exe");             /* Name of program to start   */

pidServer = ReturnCodes.termcodepid;

<Store pidServer in window words>

This example shows the use of the DosExecPgm() function to start a process from another process within the application.