Error while setting up enviroment for the application

Question

Hi,
Im getting a popup box displaying the error message
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntvdm.exe
Error while setting up enviroment for the application. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.
When I try to excute an external exe, why am I getting this error? and is there a way of getting this exe to execute properly without the error?
Here my code for excuting the external exe
String[] cmd = {"C:/gen.exe", "C:/a.zip"};
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
p.waitFor(); "gen.exe" is the program i wish to execute and "a.zip" is the parameter i wish to excute it with.

Answer 1

class ExecRuntime {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
String[] cmd = {"C:\\gen.exe", "C:\\a.zip"};
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
p.waitFor();
} Here we need to use backslashes, because the command is passed to the OS as is.
If you need to be in C:\ to execute from command line, you will also need to use the
exec() version that allows you to specify the 'current directory'
Edited by: baftos on Mar 7, 2008 12:13 PM