[Reinhard Doelz]

In article <9309030123.AA03088 at gcrc.scripps.edu>, yagi2 at SCRIPPS.EDU (Akemi Yagi/BCR7 4-8094) writes:
...
|> I have a question regarding C programming on UNIX.  A call to the function
|> system() allows a program to execute a shell command.  However, system
|> invokes sh but not csh.  As a result it cannot execute a command which
...

======================test.c
#include "stdio.h"
main()
{ 
        char string[90]; 
        sprintf (string,"/bin/csh test.csh\n"); 
        printf (" Executing %s\n", string); 
        system(string); 
} 

======================test.csh 
#!/bin/csh

alias

====================


% test 
Executing /bin/csh test.csh

h       history
ls 	ls -C 



Be aware, in VMS it's a bit more tricky. 



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