+U77 FORTRAN compile-line option required

NAME

system − execute a UNIX command

SYNOPSIS

INTEGER*4 function system (string)
character*(*) string

DESCRIPTION

System causes string to be given to your shell as input as if the string had been typed as a command.  If environment variable SHELL is found, its value will be used as the command interpreter (shell); otherwise sh(1) is used.

The current process waits until the command terminates.  A negative value is returned for an error or receipt of a signal, and errno is set to indicate the error.  A non-negative return value is the exit status of the shell.  See wait(2) for an explanation of this value.

FILES

/usr/lib/libU77.a

SEE ALSO

exec(2), wait(2), system(3)

BUGS

String can not be longer than NCARGS−50 characters, as defined in <sys/param.h>.

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  HP-UX Release 9.0: June 1992