I have set up popen to do some file system tasks (opening, moving and deleting files) which works. It does have a major annoyance in that for each command passed, a command prompt window opens and then closes (stealing focus). Is there any way to not have the window open at all? I set the command prompt application property to run minimized but that only controls how the app launches when double clicked.
Also, commands seem to take rather long to complete although I'm not sure how the window opening plays into that.