Re: [PHP4BETA] System() Unable to fork....

Even with the correct path to notepad the same error is displayed. I have simplified things and have copied notepad.exe to the root of the c: drive and then used: system("c:\\notepad.exe"); and I still get the message of Warning: Unable to fork [notepad.exe] In the real project I do am not trying to invoke notepad, but I figured that notepad would be an easy test. Does the paths and directories section of the php.ini have help provide any solution? I just made the following change: extension_dir = "C:\" ;./ ; directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside that did not work so I then added another \ and it did not work either. extension_dir = "C:\\" ;./ ; directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside Any more suggestions would be appreciated. Spencer Shearer Torsten Martinsen wrote: > Spencer Shearer wrote: > > Even when I use the command as you suggested I still get the same error message of: > > Warning: Unable to fork [notepad.exe] > > The syntax of the command that I am using is: > > system("c:\\windows\\notepad.exe"); > > > > > > > I am using NT 4.0, IIS 4.0. and PHP 4. I am not able to get the system(), exec() > > On NT, the default path to Notepad is \winnt\system32\notepad.exe > > -Torsten > > -- > PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net