Hi all!

* I would like to call a (linux)shell out of a my_program - but how?
* How do I leave this shell and return to my_program (I suppose with <exit>)?
* Is it possible to call another program (ie editor) directly out of my_program?

More specific:
I want to call an determined) editor to edit a (determined) textfile, like <call /usr/bin/vi ~/001.txt> (where vi and 001.txt are determined in my_program) and when I exit the edit process I return to my_program.
The program I want to write is a simple console based (ncurses) mind-mapping-tool.

TIA
Lea

you can use

system("whatever_editor_you_want yourfile")

Thanks for your very fast help (and your patience with a newbie)

Lea

System appears to be the right call for what you want to do now. But you might also want to do a man exec and check out all the functions they give you there, some of them are useful for other purposes.

Like if I wanted to spawn a process but not wait for it to finish before proceeding I would do something like this:

if(fork() == 0)
{
exec(blahblahblah);
}

Oh ya... do a man fork too, it is a pretty powerful function as well, but be careful when using it.