running a program via exec*

[Steve Holden]

"Rajarshi Guha" <rxg218 at psu.edu> wrote in message
news:a54294$l0e at r02n01.cac.psu.edu...
> Hi,
>   this is somewaht related to my earlier post. When I use execl(progname)
> it seems to work. However it always looks for the progrma in the current
> directory. Is there any way to specify the path from the environment
> without having to type out the path to the program itself?
>
You forgot about execlp() ... the exec*p() variants search the usual
suspects for the executable.

regards
 Steve
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