This is kind of an odd question but does anyone know how to make a c program open multiple separate CMD prompts? they don't even have to be proper command prompts they can spit out text in a separate CMD like window that's fine. they don't need to talk to each other or do anything more than display text. the only reason I'm not doing this in Batch is because it needs to be a compiled EXE. I know I can run windows commands in c with "system(...)" however I'm not sure how to force these to be separate windows. if anyone knows a way to do that I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you for your time

CodePudding user response：

You can use CreateProcess to rum cmd,and communicate through pipe.

CodePudding user response：

Your question is not clear to me, but let me try:

A single process can have no or exactly one console window. E.g. in Visual Studio, in the linker settings, you can set the subsystem to console, then the console window is opened automatically or you can use AllocConsole to get one. If you need more windows to display text, you have to create these windows by yourself (these windows aren't normal console windows). Another possibility is to start more backgroud processes, each having its own console window to display the text. To start these background processes, use CreateProcess and use for dwCreationFlags CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE.

If you have a batch file and want to display multiple console windows, use the start command to start your console program to create a new console and disply its output there, e.g.

start cmd.exe /k dir