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exec call

Posted by Erich Teppan on October 22, 2001 at 8:44 AM

> Hi I'm trying to execute a jar file from another java program. But for some reason this doesnt work.
> try{
> Runtime.getRuntime().exec(
> "c:/pathname/java.exe -jar MyPgm.jar");
> }
> catch(IOException ioe){ioe.printStackTrace();}

> the above code just opens a dos window and quickly closes it.
> When i try executing that string in windows run it works but for some reason out of my java program it doesnt. Anyone know why??
> thanx