if you decide to make a hub for your game or something like that, this will work.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/f8564e31-a3d6-4674-bfee-68ed0fe20126
sure... you can use EXEC or I don't understand you.
no it works, if you were gonna have visual c++ open up a .bat file to run a bennu game, youd use that
oh, sorry, I was understand call a bat from bennugd.
from C you must run it with cmd.exe, for example:
system( "cmd.exe /C mybat.bat" );