C programming question

[starchypizza]

Hi i am a new programmer and i have been fooling around programming some basic stuff for DOS...is there a way/code to program so that when i run the code on DOS it will run a file or another program

thanks

[chris31]

Have a look at this. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/exec.html

[starchypizza]

So what im confused what is the code to open say command prompt then set it on a timer to open say a few seconds later....because that thing confused me some....